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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Monthly marathon

01 June 2002 Comments Other It is amazing just how many birds of prey seem to be flying away from you when you first see them. Picture the scene: you are wandering along some desert wadi, scouring the bushes for small migrants, when you take yet another glance upwards. And this t...
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Reviews

01 June 2002 Comments Reviews Edited by P. J. Higgins, J. M. Peter & W. K. Steele. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001. 1,270 pages; 44 colour plates; numerous linedrawings and maps. ISBN 0-19-553258.9. Hardback, £135.00. The first and largest volume of this mammoth proje...
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News and Comment

01 June 2002 Comments News and comment Plans by the Norwegian multinational company Norsk Hydro for a huge aluminium smelter in Iceland have been shelved: this means that the giant hydroelectric scheme needed to fuel the plant has also been abandoned. It would have been the largest hydro sc...
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