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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Reviews

01 June 2009
Comments Reviews AVES DA AMAZÃNIA BRASILEIRA/BIRDS OF AMAZONIAN BRAZIL By Tomas Sigrist. Avis Brasilis, 2008. 470 pages; 204 colour plates; several line-drawings; numerous colour maps. ISBN 978-85-60120-04-8. Paperback, £34.99. Available in the UK exclusively from NH...
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Notes

01 June 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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Conservation research news

01 June 2009
Comments News and comment One of the most widely recognised impacts of climate change concerns the phenology of biological events. Since birds tend to time their breeding to coincide with peaks in food availability, climate change has the potential to disrupt this match. Christ...
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Recent reports

01 June 2009
Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers early April 2009 to early May 2009. Headlines As a whole, the period had a decidedly southern or southeast European feel, with spring overshoots including a long-awaited Crested Lar...
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