Recent reports

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid August to mid September 2004. Canvasback Aythya valisineria Private site (Kent), 15th August. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca Chew Valley Lake (Somerset), 20th August to 1st September. Zino's/Fea's Petrel Pterod...
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News and Comment

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Crake Crex crex is a familiar, if depressing, story. Mechanical mowing and the early harvesting of crops, before the end of the breeding season, have had a catastrophic effect on Corn Crakes in Britain and across much of western Eu...
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Conservation research news

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment One of the assumptions that scientists often make about territorial birds is that individuals will choose the best breeding sites available. Consequently, when populations are small, every individual occupies a high-quality site but, as populations grow, ...
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The Carl Zeiss Award 2004

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper One of the difficulties for the judging panel of the Carl Zeiss Award, for photographs of rarities assessed by the BBRC during the preceding year, is that we have to think of something new to say in our report each year. This year it was easy, in fact it ...
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AudouinÕs Gull: new to Britain

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A second-summer Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii was found at Dungeness, Kent, on 5th May 2003. It lingered in the area for the remainder of the day, commuting between the shore and nearby pools on the RSPB reserve. It was present again the followi...
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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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Reviews

01 September 2004 Comments Reviews SEABIRDS: A NATURAL HISTORY By Anthony J. Gaston. T & A D Poyser, A&C Black, London, 2004. 222 pages; 16 pages of colour plates; maps, figures, tables, line-drawings, blackand-white photographs. ISBN 0-7136-6568-8. Hardback, £35.00. Seabird ecologis...
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Letters

01 September 2004 Comments Letters As a group, we have been observing and giving protection to Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus in the New Forest, Hampshire, for the past 50 years. Normally, we do not publish our findings, but in recent years there has been such wild speculation as to the nu...
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