News and Comment

01 January 2006 Comments News and comment As 2005 drew to a close, the virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza was reported in poultry in the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine. This was the fourth country in Europe to report bird flu, following outbreaks in October in Romania (dead Mute Swans Cygnus...
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Letters

01 January 2006 Comments Letters I refer to Steve Percival's article on this subject (Percival 2005). By the end of 2004, 16,534 wind turbines were installed in Germany, which provides enormous scope for research on the potential impacts to bird populations. Most of this research has ...
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Monthly marathon

01 July 2001 Comments Other The long pointed wings and long, tapering, forked tail of the bird in Monthly Marathon number 177 (plate 109, repeated here as plate 198) will have been readily identifiable as a swift (Apodidae) to all but the most inexperienced of obser vers. The pho...
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Reviews

01 July 2001 Comments Reviews PIGEONS AND DOVES By David Gibbs, Eustace Barnes & John Cox. Pica Press, Sussex, 2001. 615 pages; 76 colour plates; 314 species illustrated in colour; 309 maps. ISBN 1-873403-60-7. Hardback, £38.00. Everyone is familiar with pigeons and doves; ind...
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