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01 March 2006 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...

Letters

01 March 2006 Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...

Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

01 March 2006 Comments Editorials Seabirds in the northeast Atlantic usually feed their chicks on small, oil-rich shoaling fish such as sandeels Ammodytes marinus, sprats Sprattus sprattus, herring Clupea harengus and capelin Mallotus villosus. Although many other fish species have bee...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper This is the second part of this, the ninth, annual Scarce Migrants report, which covers the passerine species from Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla to Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla. Part 1 of the report, which dealt with non-passerines, has ...

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Juvenile Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus exhibit a striking resemblance to Common Buzzards Buteo buteo, even though the two species are not closely related. Both species, but particularly Honey-buzzards, rather frequently fall prey to Northern ...

British Birds – March 2006

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Reviews

01 July 1982 Comments Reviews Bird Detective. By Peter Robinson. Elm Tree Books, London, 1982.159 pages; 12 photographs. £7.95, Peter Robinson is the Senior Investigations Officer of the RSPB and this book tells the birdwatcher at large something of his work. The Inv...

Recent reports

01 July 1982 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates in this report refer to April unless otherwise stated. The month was dominated by anticyclonic weather conditions and was mostly dry and settled. During the first fiv...

News and comment

01 July 1982 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' Enough to turn a worm A print-out from PATSEARCH--an information service operated by Pergamon International Information Corporation of McLean, Va., USA--giv...

Announcement

01 July 1982 Comments Editorials OUP books We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements with Oxford University Press for several more books to be available (post free in UK & Eire, add 50p overseas) to BB subscribers through British BirdShop (see page vii): A ...

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