There is a curious symmetry to the fact that my first spring at British Birds will go down in history for the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, while my last is dominated by coronavirus. My first editorial in this journal was about FMD and (unrelated) delays in our production schedule, but I don’t intend to write much about coronavirus, given the saturation coverage across the media. Unlike FMD though, it does have potential implications for the arrival of your monthly issue of BB. We are fortunate in that all of our production staff work from home and, happily, we are currently all well. But getting paper copies out involves printing and mailing. At the time of writing, Swallowtail Print is still open and the postal service is still operational, but potentially either – or both – of them could be affected by the current crisis. In that event, we will endeavour to make a digital version of each new issue available to all subscribers at the start of the month, and we will print and mail all of your issues just as soon as we can. Hopefully it will not come to that, but keep an eye on our website www.britishbirds.co.uk for updates if your paper copy has not arrived when you expect.