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The boundaries of the Palearctic region

01 December 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Although the western and eastern boundaries of the Palearctic region are widely agreed, there is still much debate about the southern boundary. In an attempt to establish a definitive southern boundary, the distribution of 1,037 breeding passe...

Reviews

01 December 2006 Comments Reviews BIRDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Edited by Anders P. Møller, Wolfgang Fiedler and Peter Berthold. Academic Press, London, 2006. 251 pages; figures, tables. ISBN 0-12-373614-5. Paperback, £28.99. This book contains a series of papers published in 2004 as a vo...

Conservation research news

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment Over 1,200 bird species in the world are currently threatened with extinction, of which 179 are classified as `Critically Endangered\' ÃÂ¯Â¿Â½ the highest threat category. In the face of these statistics it is difficult to remain optimistic, b...

Racial identification and assessment in Britain: a report from the RIACT subcommittee

01 December 2006 Comments Main paper Throughout the past 100 years or so, interest in the racial identification of bird species has blown hot and cold. Many of today's familiar species were first described during the nineteenth century and, as interest in new forms grew, many collectors b...

Recent reports

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid October to mid November 2006. ...

News and Comment

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment The temporary ban on importing wild birds into the EU has lasted more than a year, but it's up for review later this month. The ban was imposed in October 2005 to contain the spread of H5N1 `avian flu' following the deaths of infected birds at a quaran...

British Birds – December 2006

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Notes

01 May 1981 Comments Notes Buzzard preying on Short-eared Owl At about 13.00 GMT on 26th October 1978,1 observed a Short-eared Owl Asio lammeus quartering the Chy-kembro Common, near Zennor, west Cornwall, at a height of l-2m. Suddenly, a Buzzard Buteo buteo flew up from...

Obituary: Leslie Hilton Brown, OBE, BSc, PhD (1917-1980)

01 May 1981 Comments Obituaries When I said goodbye to Leslie Brown on that late May afternoon in Aviemore, I had a premonition that I would not see him again. We had spent an unforgettable evening at Roy Dennis's house, listening to Leslie's yarns about Africa and its wildlife, his ...

Bird Photograph of the Year

01 May 1981 Comments Main paper A total of 134 transparencies taken during 1980 was submitted by 52 photographers for this year's competition. The general standard was exceedingly high, with all but half-a-dozen of the entries in serious contention for the top prize. The judging pane...

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