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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Recent reports

01 March 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records November saw the beginning of winter in most parts of Britain. Temperatures, although above average, dropped sharply, especially in the third week, and frost and light falls of snow were no...
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News and comment

01 March 1973 Comments News and comment B.T.O. conferences  This winter, the British Trust for Ornithology has held three of its well-known weekend conferences at Swanwick in Derbyshire. The Annual Conference, during 1st-3rd December, heard a diverse selection of mainly con...
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Reviews

01 March 1973 Comments Reviews Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas. Vol. 4. Falconiformes. Edited by U. N. Glutz von Blotzheim, with K. M. Bauer and E, Bezzel. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt a m Main, 1971.943 pages; 3 colour plates; 128 line-drawings and maps. DM 138.00 (s...
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Letters

01 March 1973 Comments Letters Crag Martins nesting on buildings With reference to the paper on Crag Martins Hirundo rupestris by Stanley Cramp (Brit. Birds, 63; 239-243), it may be of interest to list the records that I have been able to trace of nests of this species on bu...
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Notes

01 March 1973 Comments Notes Spotted Crakes taking food from anglers On 26th September 1972, at a gravel pit in Somerset, I was standing near an angler when from time to time I saw a Spotted Crake Porzana porzana emerge from a narrow belt of reeds behind him and start peck...
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