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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Monthly marathon

01 December 2003
Comments Other Every so often, this competition includes something which initially defies identification. The bird depicted in plate 213, repeated here as plate 403, is one such individual, since it lacks any clear or familiar plumage features that would normally all...
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News and Comment

01 December 2003
Comments News and comment The Government's apparent decision to kill off its conservation watchdog in England is a grim case of history repeating itself. It is barely a decade since the then Conservative Government scrapped the UK-wide Nature Conservancy Council in 1991, at the...
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Reviews

01 December 2003
Comments Reviews THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK By Steve Piotrowski. Christopher Helm, A&C Black, London, 2003. 360 pages; 70 colour photographs; line-drawings, charts and distribution maps. ISBN 1-7136-6354-5. Hardback, £40.00. map, based upon the results of a tetrad surve...
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Notes

01 December 2003
Comments Notes For the past ten years, I have studied the behaviour of Common Starlings Sturnus vulgaris which in autumn roost in vast numbers in the reedbeds of S'Abulfera Parc Natural, Mallorca. Each evening, the starlings fly into the Parc from many directions in ...
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