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01 October 2008 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mainly new arrivals between early August and early September 2008. ...

News and comment

01 October 2008 Comments News and comment Bird-of-prey conservation has faced no fewer than three major setbacks in the past month: Defra has confirmed that a bare minimum of raptor species will require registration for captive-breeding in future; one of the first Red Kites Milvus milvus reint...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2007

01 October 2008 Comments Main paper This is the fiftieth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. This is not an insignificant milestone and, as last year's introduction alluded, there are a number of changes in personnel responsible for the production of this report. After...

British Birds – October 2008

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Reviews

01 May 1975 Comments Reviews Birds of Prey in Europe. By Maarten Bijleveld. Macmillan, London, 1974. 263 pages; two black-and-white plates; five figures. £12.50. The bare bones of this grim tale can be exposed in a few words. In the estimation of Professor Dr. K. H. Voous...

Notes

01 May 1975 Comments Notes 'Freezing' behaviour of Pheasants on tree branches At 15.00 hours on 19th February 1972, in Hetchell Wood, north-east of Leeds, West Yorkshire, we found an old hawthorn Crataegus monogyna covered with droppings, with more droppings on the ground below, su...

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

01 May 1975 Comments Main paper This is the sixteenth annual feature on the best contemporary black-and-white bird photographs. Once again we had a record number of prints submitted to us, by 43 photographers, which really is gratifying when one considers that most photographers nowa...

Viewpoint: Migration in the doldrums

01 May 1975 Comments Main paper Ian Wallace is an amateur ornithologist and occasional illustrator whose past tendency to erratic and international vagrancy has been replaced by a regular shuttle up and down the east coast of Britain. He now enjoys the relative solitude of birdwatchi...

Status and habitats of the Dartford Warbler, Whitethroat and Stonechat in Dorset in 1959-60

01 May 1975 Comments Main paper From 1954 to i960 I made a study of the flora and fauna of the Dorset heathlands in order to determine the conservation requirements of the area. This involved an intensive study on the distribution of certain indicator species in the summers of 1959 a...

Status, habitats and conservation of the Dartford Warbler in England

01 May 1975 Comments Main paper The Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata is a bird of maritime western Europe reaching its northern limit in England. It is the only exclusively characteristic bird of lowland heath in southern England, and its total Palearctic range is smaller than that of ...

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