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01 December 2009 Comments News and comment The illegal persecution of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus rarely attracts mainstream media coverage – but it was national news at the end of October! Two Hen Harriers were shot on the edge of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk and police interviewed Prin...

Letter

01 December 2009 Comments Letters The two outlying Orkney islets north of Cape Wrath usually known to ornithologists as Sule Skerry and Sule Stack, and on charts as Sule Skerry and Stack Skerry (Brit. Birds 100: 300–304), present problems of nomenclature. Until recently, `Solan Gee...

Notes

01 December 2009 Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper This is the forty-ninth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. It is also the first report in the post-Mike Rogers era, the last that will be compiled primarily by Pete Fraser, and the last one with an introduction from me. Nigel Hudson...

British Birds – December 2007

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Requests

01 April 1992 Comments Editorials Photographs of King Eiders For a forthcoming paper in British Birds, by Pete Ellis, Dave Suddaby and Ken Shaw, photographs are required of King Eiders Somateria spectabilis, particularly of females and non-adult males. All photographs will be acknowled...

Announcements

01 April 1992 Comments Editorials With 'BB' to Israel. After the very successful exploratory trip in 1991 (Brit. Birds 85: 127129), BB subscribers now have a second chance to join Hadoram Shirihai watching raptor migration, searching for migrants and cruising on the Red Sea looking at ...

ICBP news

01 April 1992 Comments Editorials Racing for the steppes. Next month there is the annual County Bird Race: a chance to test your birding skills, as well as raise money for top-priority conservation. If you had taken part in the County Bird Race 200 years ago, and were competing in East...

Fieldwork action BTO news

01 April 1992 Comments Editorials 'Nesting' helps bird conservation If, during the course of the spring and early summer, you come across the odd nest in a hedgerow or even in your garden, recording what you see on a card we supply can help towards the understanding and the conservatio...

Reviews

01 April 1992 Comments Reviews A Field Guide to the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe. Illustrated by Ian Lewington. Text by Per Alström & Peter Colston. HarperCollins, London, 1991. 448 pages; 129 colour plates; 409 line-drawings. £14.99. Little more than four years ag...

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