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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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper This is the forty-ninth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. It is also the first report in the post-Mike Rogers era, the last that will be compiled primarily by Pete Fraser, and the last one with an introduction from me. Nigel Hudson...

British Birds – December 2007

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Recent reports

01 November 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th September to 17th October 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. SemipaJmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus First-winter plover showing some diagnostic features of this species at Bally...

Monthly marathon

01 November 1993 Comments Other No trap, it was a Little Gull, photographed by Axel Halley in Germany in October 1988 (SCORE 6). The first person to achieve a score of 500 will win a birding trip with SUNBIRD to Africa, Asia or North America.223. Sixth 'Monthly marathon', using new r...

News and Comment

01 November 1993 Comments News and comment NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO, criticism of the Forestry Commission was almost a daily event. The design and, very often, the location of commercial plantations seemed to work against the best interests of birds and other wildlife, and various aspects of fores...

Mystery photographs

01 November 1993 Comments Main paper The fairly long neck, pot belly, short and slightly decurved bill, and scaly upperparts readily suggest that our mystery bird (plate 217 on page 566) is a Calidris wader, or perhaps a Ruff Philomachus pugnax. Discerning the size of a lone wader in the ...

Announcements

01 November 1993 Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report. Entries are invited for the third annual award (see account of the first and second awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Britain ...

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