News and Comment

01 January 2006
Comments News and comment As 2005 drew to a close, the virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza was reported in poultry in the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine. This was the fourth country in Europe to report bird flu, following outbreaks in October in Romania (dead Mute Swans Cygnus...
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Letters

01 January 2006
Comments Letters I refer to Steve Percival's article on this subject (Percival 2005). By the end of 2004, 16,534 wind turbines were installed in Germany, which provides enormous scope for research on the potential impacts to bird populations. Most of this research has ...
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Mystery Photographs

01 July 1986
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery photograph (plate 158, repeated here) clearly showed an eagle. Although it perhaps looked like a rather short version of a White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla without the typical wedge-shaped tail of that species (note, however...
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Reactions of birds to heavy rain

01 July 1986
Comments Main paper A note by myself and another by David A. Christie on the reactions of wildfowl and waders to rain and hail (Brit. Birds 77: 20-21), with a request for other observations on the subject, stimulated a further 11 notes describing the behaviour of birds in...
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