Reviews

01 November 2008 Comments Reviews PETRELS NIGHT AND DAY By Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach. The Sound Approach, Poole, Dorset, 2008. 300 pages, 17 full-page colour plates; many colour photographs; and sonograms of most of the 127 sound recordings presented on two ...
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Letter

01 November 2008 Comments Letters The excellent and informative paper by Heaney et al. (2008) stated that `The [Isles of Scilly] Puffin Fratercula arctica population is of great regional importance and, along with colonies in the Channel Islands and Co. Kerry, marks the southwestern li...
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Conservation research news

01 November 2008 Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra in recent decades, estimated at 86% between 1967 and 2005, has been among the most dramatic of any species in the UK. A similar pattern of decline, including range contraction and local extinct...
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Recent reports

01 October 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 16th August to 12th September 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records   White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla Navax Point (Cornwall), 11th September. Oriental Pratincole Glareola ma...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 October 1993 Comments Other On 12th October 1968, Britain's first-ever Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata was found near the Post Office on St Agnes, Isles of Stilly, and ten days later, on 22nd October, a second was mistnetted, in Nant withy-bed on Bardsey Island (Brit. Birds 6...
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