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Bird Photograph of the Year 2011

01 August 2011 Comments Main paper The British Birds Bird Photograph of the Year competition continues to attract the very best examples of work from both professional and amateur photographers and this is reflected in this year's top entries. Many birdwatchers now carry some sort of camer...
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The Carl Zeiss Award 2011

01 August 2011 Comments Main paper The Carl Zeiss Award, established in 1991, is awarded for a photograph, or set of photographs, judged to have been most instructive for the BBRC's assess- ment of difficult species (or subspecies) during the previous year. Following the suc- cessful forma...
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News and comment

01 August 2011 Comments News and comment The radical plan to save the Spoon-billed Sand- piper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus from extinction revealed in last month's British Birds (Brit. Birds 104: 350-363) has had its first success. The international captive-breeding team, led by the Wildfowl & Wetla...
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Kestrels for Company

01 August 2011 Comments Reviews By Gordon Riddle Whittles Publishing, 2011 Pbk, 198pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-184995-029-9 Subbuteo code M20795 £18.99 BB Bookshop price £17.00 Kestrels for Company is the latest offering from this publisher in a growing series of s...
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