01 November 2019CommentsLatest issues
The latest State of Nature report, released last month, did little to gladden the heart. It suggests that since the 1970s there has been a 13% decrease in average abundance across the wildlife groups studied in the UK and that the declines continue una...
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01 November 2019CommentsReviews
By Tim Mackrill
Bloomsbury, 2019 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series)
Sbk, 128pp; many colour photographs
ISBN 978-1-4729-5603-3; £12.99
It’s always nice to have a choice and for all but the most devoted of Osprey afi...
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01 November 2019CommentsReviews
By Gerard Gorman
Bloomsbury, 2018 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series)
Pbk, 128pp; many colour photographs
ISBN 978-1-4729-5118-2; £9.99
The ‘RSPB Spotlight’ series is shining its bright, if rather narrow, bea...
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01 October 2019CommentsLatest issues
The BBRC annual report needs little introduction to regular readers, since it is now 60 years since our national rarities committee was first established. Andy Stoddart looks back over the first six decades in his ‘BBRC birthday’ BB eye on p...
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01 September 2019CommentsLatest issues
Two of the main articles in this issue showcase studies in which tracking has played an important part, which is a recurring theme in BB editorial content these days. The article on Roseate Terns features the results of direct observations (and ...
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01 August 2019CommentsLatest issues
422 BB eye Ian Carter
427 News and comment Adrian Pitches
431 The migrations of British Common Sandpipers Ron Summers, Brian Bates, Louise d...
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01 August 2019CommentsEditorials
By Ian Carter
On 1st August 1989, a handful of young Swedish Red Kites Milvus milvus were sitting patiently in their holding pens, tucked away in a secluded valley in the Chiltern Hills in southern England. Later that day they w...
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