News and comment

01 October 2008 Comments News and comment Bird-of-prey conservation has faced no fewer than three major setbacks in the past month: Defra has confirmed that a bare minimum of raptor species will require registration for captive-breeding in future; one of the first Red Kites Milvus milvus reint...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 2002 Comments Other It is amazing just how many birds of prey seem to be flying away from you when you first see them. Picture the scene: you are wandering along some desert wadi, scouring the bushes for small migrants, when you take yet another glance upwards. And this t...
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Reviews

01 June 2002 Comments Reviews Edited by P. J. Higgins, J. M. Peter & W. K. Steele. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001. 1,270 pages; 44 colour plates; numerous linedrawings and maps. ISBN 0-19-553258.9. Hardback, £135.00. The first and largest volume of this mammoth proje...
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News and Comment

01 June 2002 Comments News and comment Plans by the Norwegian multinational company Norsk Hydro for a huge aluminium smelter in Iceland have been shelved: this means that the giant hydroelectric scheme needed to fuel the plant has also been abandoned. It would have been the largest hydro sc...
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Letters

01 June 2002 Comments Letters Gauntlett's view of history (Brit. Birds 95: 146) is inadequate. He states: `That a few species "never had it so good" for a few decades cannot be a valid reason for trying to perpetuate that situation.' If it were true that this period of abundance wa...
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