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Recent reports

01 December 2008 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers mainly new arrivals between early October and early November 2008. ...

News and comment

01 December 2008 Comments News and comment The RSPB has confirmed what fieldworkers had already realised: that some of our seabirds had a catastrophic breeding season in northern Britain in 2008. Data from the RSPB's coastal reserves show that three species, Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla, Arctic T...

Reviews

01 December 2008 Comments Reviews FRONTIERS IN BIRDING By Martin Garner and friends. BirdGuides Ltd, London, 2008. 192 pages; black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 978-1-898110-47-7. Paperback, £19.95. In my youth, I can remember embracing wholeheartedly a series of articles written by ...

Notes

01 December 2008 Comments Notes Merlins plucking and eating dead young Short-eared Owl sitting on sea surface to avoid Carrion Crows Male Firecrest helping to feed a Goldcrest family ...

Letter

01 December 2008 Comments Letters We who learnt our migrants from the Witherby Handbook and post-war observatories were told to be patient when the target was our first `Greenland Wheatear' Oenanthe oenanthe leucorhoa. `None before the last third of April and most in May' was the sum o...

Conservation research news

01 December 2008 Comments News and comment ...

The rise and fall of Bulwer's Petrel

01 December 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT This short paper examines two recent reviews of records of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii in Britain by BOURC. Four records were assessed, including three specimen records from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and a mod...

Birds and habitat change in Britain Part 1: a review of losses and gains in the twentieth century

01 December 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT We identify 18 trends in habitat quantity or quality considered to be important drivers of change in bird populations in the twentieth century. The trends are grouped into changes in (i) farmland (including the uplands), (ii) woodland/forestry...

British Birds – December 2008

01 December 2008 Comments Latest issues ...

The index of heron population

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper The number of heronries on which reports for 1949 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 162, or 16 more than in the previous year. Of these 117 were in England, 9 in Wales, 17 in Scotland and 19 in Ireland. We are indebted to 79 informants of who...

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