News and comment

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...
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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...
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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...
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Reviews

01 September 1981 Comments Reviews Usborne Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe. By Rob Hume, Usborne, London, 1981. 128 pages; colour and black-and-white illustrations on 119 pages. Hardback, £3.99; paperback, £2.50.  Beginners will find this a splendid book. Indeed, it ...
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Short reviews

01 September 1981 Comments Reviews Pigeon Racing: advanced techniques. By Jan Aerts. (Faber & Faber, 1981. £2.50) Paperback version of 1969 book. Illustrated Guide to Birds and Birdwatching. By Neil Ardley. (Ward Lock, 1980. £6.95) A curate's egg of a book, but one is left...
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Recent reports

01 September 1981 Comments News and comment June, to which all dates in this report refer, continued a fascinating spring into a remarkable summer for unusual birds. It is all too easy to forget the excitement of rarities these days--to many birdwatchers, perhaps, the birds are still unlikely to...
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News and comment

01 September 1981 Comments News and comment International ornithological politics Jeffery Boswall has gleaned the following information from The Daily Telegraph (15th June), J o Grimmond on the Wildlife and Countryside Bill: 'If it becomes law you may shoot the Redshank and Curlew. I do ...
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Announcements

01 September 1981 Comments Editorials Peterson Sound Guide: discs and cassettes This superb set of recordings (A Field Guide to the Bird Songs of Britain and Europe by Sture Palmer and Jeffery Boswall) is now available on four packs of four cassettes as well as on 15 LPs. It provid...
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