News and comment

01 December 2009
Comments News and comment The illegal persecution of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus rarely attracts mainstream media coverage – but it was national news at the end of October! Two Hen Harriers were shot on the edge of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk and police interviewed Prin...
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Letter

01 December 2009
Comments Letters The two outlying Orkney islets north of Cape Wrath usually known to ornithologists as Sule Skerry and Sule Stack, and on charts as Sule Skerry and Stack Skerry (Brit. Birds 100: 300–­304), present problems of nomenclature. Until recently, `Solan Gee...
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Notes

01 December 2009
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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Reviews

01 April 2004
Comments Reviews The Birds of the Isles of ScillyNorwegian Bird Ringing AtlasField Guide to the Birds of the West IndiesField guide to the Birds of ChileWildlife Walks: great days out at over 500 of the UK’s top nature reservesBTO/C...
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Looking back

01 April 2004
Comments Other `Semi-palmated Sandpiper in Norfolk.­­ On July 19th, 1953, an unusual wader was observed on Arnold's Marsh, Cley, Norfolk, by P. R. Clarke, who pointed it out to P. D. Kirky, and R. A. Richardson. It was subsequently watched for some hours at a f...
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Notes

01 April 2004
Comments Notes Little Grebes feeding in association with scuba diversMoorhen interspecific brood parasitismCanabalistic foraging by Common CootsNorthern Lapwing in aberrant plumageRecord numbers of wintering Richard’s Pipits in the Weste...
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