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Letters

01 July 2010 Comments Letters The eastern subspecies of the Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus samamisicus is generally described as inhabiting the Caucasus, parts of Turkey and parts of the Middle East. Most authors place Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula into the range of...
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Notes

01 July 2010 Comments Notes As a result of the realignment of the River Glaven into Blakeney Harbour, north Norfolk, a large area of dried mud was created north of the Blakeney Freshes (fresh- water marsh). Here, in early June 2006, 17 pairs of Avocets Recurvirostra avosetta sett...
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News and comment

01 July 2010 Comments News and comment Following Little Egret Egretta garzetta, Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis and Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia, the latest southern heron to breed in Britain is Purple Heron Ardea purpurea. The RSPB confirmed in May ...
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Recent reports

01 July 2010 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early May to early June 2010. Headlines Rarities arrived from all directions during a sparkling spring period. Among the North American landbirds were four White-throated Sparrows at widely scattered locations, ...
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Extinction of Alaotra Grebe

14 July 2010 Comments News and comment Much like the announcement of a death in the family, BirdLife has pronounced the extinction of the Madagascan endemic Alaotra Grebe Tachybaptus rufolavatus in the 2010 update to the IUCN Red List. Restricted to a tiny area o...
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Theft from MacGillivray's grave

01 July 2010 Comments News and comment A great friend of John James Audubon and arguably Scotland's greatest nineteenth-century naturalist, William MacGillivray was buried in Edinburgh in 1852. He was laid to rest in an unmarked plot in the New Calton Burial Ground; in 1900, a memorial was rai...
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