Notes

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...
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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...
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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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