News and comment

01 June 2008
Comments News and comment BirdLife Malta and BirdLife International have warmly welcomed the European Court's decision to order Malta not to open the 2008 spring hunting season for Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur and Common Quail Coturnix coturnix. This is an interim ruling pen...
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Reviews

01 June 2008
Comments Reviews A CLIMATIC ATLAS OF EUROPEAN BREEDING BIRDS By Brian Huntley, Rhys E. Green, Yvonne C. Collingham and Stephen G. Willis. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 2007. 528 pages; 431 species mapped in colour. ISBN 978-84-96553-14-9. Hardback, £40.00. ...
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Notes

01 June 2008
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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Letter

01 June 2008
Comments Letters I wholly agree with Martin Woodcock and Chris Smout's defence of the reputation of Arthur Newstead, and also their suggestion that once the unsupported implication of fraud is removed, there seems little reason to regard the Cheshire record of Kermadec...
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Reviews

01 April 1984
Comments Reviews National Geographic Society Field Guide to the Birds of North America. National Geographic Society, Washington, 1983. 464 pages; 220 colour plates. Paperback, £7.95. A few weeks ago, I had the privilege and pleasure of attending a rather special ...
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Recent Reports

01 April 1984
Comments News and comment We are sorry to report that Rob Hume, co-author of this feature for over four years, since October 1979, has decided that his job as editor of the YOC magazine Bird Life involves him in quite sufficient deadlines without adding those associated with th...
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