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01 January 2010 Comments Letters In 2007, I was surprised to read (in Flood & Thomas 2007, p. 418) that I had seen a dark- rumped Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus near South Georgia, when what I saw was a bird with markings resembling those of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma le... Read More

Winter roosting behaviour of Hen Harriers in northern England

01 January 2010 Comments Main paper This article presents some observations on the winter roosting behaviour of Hen Har- riers Circus cyaneus in northern England during the winters of 2006/07 and 2007/08. The 7-km2 study area of low-lying hills (100-235 m asl) is a mixture of bog, heath, co... Read More

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2007

01 January 2010 Comments Open Access With the publication of this, its thirty-fourth report, the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP) has been compiling and archiving information on rare breeding birds for 35 years. This report presents details of the status of the rarest breeding birds in th... Read More

Irish seabird islands

01 February 1980 Comments Main paper Although Ireland is not large in area, the mainland and associated islands have a coastline of over 4,000 km. There are just over 1,000 islands of a significant size (i.e. large enough to appear on the standard 1:126,720 Ordnance Survey maps in us... Read More