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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Winter summary

01 October 1976
Comments News and comment There were few reports of gatherings of divers. The only ones of any real interest were as follows: 15 Great Northern Gavia immer at Golspie (Highland) in mid-January; 24 Black-throated G. arctica near Dodman Point (Cornwall) on 20th March; and 35 Red-...
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News and Comment

01 October 1976
Comments News and comment British ornithologists held by guerrillas Since about 9th May, Stephanie Tyler, well known for her studies of Grey Wagtails (e.g. Bird Study, 19: 69-80), together with her husband Lindsay and their two children, Robert (8) and Sarah (5), have b...
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Reviews

01 October 1976
Comments Reviews British Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins 'New Naturalist', London, 1976. 400 pages; 34 m a p s ; 11 figures; 23 tables; eight pages of appendix tables; 40 black-and-white photographs. £6.00. Aficionado and professional alike have waited...
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Notes

01 October 1976
Comments Notes Breeding success of Red-throated Divers on Hascosay The note by D. P. Cyrus on the breeding success of Red-throated Divers Gavia stellata on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1971 {Brit. Birds, 68: 75-76) prompts me to record the following. B. Hawkes and I ...
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