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British Birds September 2024

British Birds September 2024

The status of the UK’s breeding seabirds  •   New insights into the migration and wintering areas of Scottish-breeding Arctic Skuas  •  Unprecedented influx of Scopoli’s Shearwaters into Scillonian waters in autumn 2023