01 October 2019CommentsNews and comment
Compiled by Adrian Pitches
Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of British Birds.
White-tailed Eagles reintroduced to the Isle of Wight
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01 October 2019CommentsEditorials
Andy Stoddart
Rare vagrants have always exerted a powerful pull on our imagination. In an era dominated by the threat of ecological collapse this may be a somewhat disproportionate response to their real importance but nevertheles...
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01 October 2019CommentsLatest issues
The BBRC annual report needs little introduction to regular readers, since it is now 60 years since our national rarities committee was first established. Andy Stoddart looks back over the first six decades in his ‘BBRC birthday’ BB eye on p...
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01 September 2019CommentsEditorials
The plight of breeding Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata was identified in 2015 as the most pressing UK bird conservation priority (Brit. Birds 108: 660–668). Drivers of long-term population decline include land-use changes in the uplan...
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01 September 2019CommentsRecent Reports
Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Harry Hussey
This summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early July to early August 2019.
Headlines It was quality not quantit...
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01 September 2019CommentsNotes
A long-term study of the breeding population of Northern Wheatears Oenanthe oenanthe on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, began in 2017. It involves colour-ringing the breeding adults and their young to monitor survival and behaviour. The aim is to build...
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01 September 2019CommentsShort paper
Abstract
We tracked 12 adult Egyptian Vultures Neophron percnopterus, captured at a landfill near Muscat, Oman, in January 2018. By 31st May 2018, none had migrated, although one had moved to southern Iran. Assuming that the tracked bi...
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01 September 2019CommentsMain paper
Andy Stoddart and J. Martin Collinson
Abstract Recent taxonomic changes to ‘Eastern Stonechats’ have separated Stejneger’s Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri from the five taxa...
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01 September 2019CommentsMain paper
Martin Perrow, Andrew Harwood, Richard Berridge, Brian Burke, Stephen Newton and Daniel Piec
Abstract Rockabill, in Co. Dublin, supports the most important colony of Roseate Ter...
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01 September 2019CommentsNews and comment
Compiled by Adrian Pitches
Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of British Birds.
Project Yellow-browed
An exciting collaboration between...
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01 September 2019CommentsEditorials
Why oh why?
The request to be guest editors for this issue of the birdspotters’ favourite monthly magazine British Birds (incorporating the Spiggie Observer) is a great honour and was a huge surprise, especially since non...
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01 September 2019CommentsLatest issues
Two of the main articles in this issue showcase studies in which tracking has played an important part, which is a recurring theme in BB editorial content these days. The article on Roseate Terns features the results of direct observations (and ...
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01 August 2019CommentsEditorials
My patch-watching began after meeting the late Cameron Bespolka during an RSPB Phoenix Conservation Weekend at RSPB Saltholme. His passion for birding his local patch (as well as his incredible list of birds) inspired me to find my own. We used to chat...
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01 August 2019CommentsRecent Reports
Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Harry Hussey
This summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early June to early July 2019.
Headlines Top of the list for this period was an e...
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01 August 2019CommentsMain paper
Since 1992, The Carl Zeiss Award has been presented to acknowledge exceptional submissions to the British Birds Rarities Committee. Currently, the award is given for the best overall submission for which assessment has been completed during the previou...
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01 August 2019CommentsMain paper
Ron Summers, Brian Bates, Louise de Raad, Norman Elkins and Brian Etheridge
Abstract The migrations of Common Sandpipers Actitis hypoleucos are described by combinin...
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