Reviews

01 November 2008
Comments Reviews PETRELS NIGHT AND DAY By Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach. The Sound Approach, Poole, Dorset, 2008. 300 pages, 17 full-page colour plates; many colour photographs; and sonograms of most of the 127 sound recordings presented on two ...
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Letter

01 November 2008
Comments Letters The excellent and informative paper by Heaney et al. (2008) stated that `The [Isles of Scilly] Puffin Fratercula arctica population is of great regional importance and, along with colonies in the Channel Islands and Co. Kerry, marks the southwestern li...
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Conservation research news

01 November 2008
Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra in recent decades, estimated at 86% between 1967 and 2005, has been among the most dramatic of any species in the UK. A similar pattern of decline, including range contraction and local extinct...
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Recent reports

01 September 2004
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid July to mid August 2004. Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Trimley Marshes (Suffolk), 13th-31st July. Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae Galley Head (Co. Cork), 27th July. Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis Pentire Poi...
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News and Comment

01 September 2004
Comments News and comment It is now clear that the catastrophic breeding season for seabirds reported in last month's N&c (Brit. Birds 97: 425) has not been restricted to Shetland. Virtually the whole of the latest Shetland Bird Club newsletter is devoted to a series of deeply tro...
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