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01 October 2008 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mainly new arrivals between early August and early September 2008. ...

News and comment

01 October 2008 Comments News and comment Bird-of-prey conservation has faced no fewer than three major setbacks in the past month: Defra has confirmed that a bare minimum of raptor species will require registration for captive-breeding in future; one of the first Red Kites Milvus milvus reint...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2007

01 October 2008 Comments Main paper This is the fiftieth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. This is not an insignificant milestone and, as last year's introduction alluded, there are a number of changes in personnel responsible for the production of this report. After...

British Birds – October 2008

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Reviews

01 February 1986 Comments Reviews Gulls and Plovers: the ecology and behaviour of mixed-species feeding groups. By C. J. Barnard and D. B. A. Thompson. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 302 pages; 14 black-and-white plates; 10 line-drawings. £25.00.This book--the first of Croom Helm's project...

Recent reports

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records.0 The dates in this report refer to November 1985 unless otherwise stated. Weather and seabird movements The cold airstream coming from the north at the end of October which introdu...

News and Comments

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Sweden's woodpeckers and Cormorants Two of Sweden's rarer breeding species, the White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos and the Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo&...