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Ringed Plovers nesting on warehouse roof

01 February 2020 Comments Notes ...

Mike Peacock (1953–2019)

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Peter Edward Davis (1928–2019)

01 February 2020 Comments Obituaries On 28th October 2019, Wales lost its adopted son, Peter Edward Davis, the man most responsible for the resurgence of the Red Kite Milvus milvus, once found only in Wales as a British breeding species and regarded by many as the Welsh national bi...

The BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2019

01 February 2020 Comments Main paper ...

The tide is turning for lead ammunition

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Water Rails in the UK – an estimate of the breeding population

01 February 2020 Comments Main paper ...

Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom

01 February 2020 Comments Main paper ...

News and comment

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BB eye: New Networks for Nature

01 February 2020 Comments Editorials ...

February 2020 – contents

01 February 2020 Comments Latest issues ...

Recent reports

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Birds of the West Indies

01 January 2020 Comments Reviews ...

On the marsh: a year surrounded by wildness and wet

01 January 2020 Comments Reviews ...

Gulls Simplified: a comparative approach to identification

01 January 2020 Comments Reviews ...

Unusual hunting method of Short-eared Owl

01 January 2020 Comments Notes At about 15.20 hrs on 17th June 2018, I was watching a Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus hunting over mixed Heather Calluna vulgaris and Purple Moor-grass Molinia caerulea moorland in north Derbyshire. Initially, it was quartering the ...

Carrion Crows dropping freshwater mussels

01 January 2020 Comments Notes ...

Red Kite attempting to snatch fishing discards at sea

01 January 2020 Comments Notes On 19th October 2018, the Spanish oceanographic ship Miguel Oliver was trawl fishing in the Bay of Biscay, c. 15 km from the north coast of Spain at San Vicente de la Barquera, Cantabria. This research fishing forms part of an investigation into...

The sad exile of the UK’s leading ornithological library

01 January 2020 Comments Letters Founded in the 1930s by W. B. Alexander, Director of the Oxford Bird Census, and moved from its original home at 91 Banbury Road to Oxford’s Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology when David Lack became Director in 1945, the Alexander Library gre...

The Falcated Duck in Britain

01 January 2020 Comments Short paper ...

Falcated Duck in Norfolk: new to Britain

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Latest Articles

Ringed Plovers nesting on warehouse roof

Mike Peacock (1953–2019)

Peter Edward Davis (1928–2019)

The BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2019

The tide is turning for lead ammunition

Water Rails in the UK – an estimate of the breeding population

Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom

News and comment

BB eye: New Networks for Nature

February 2020 – contents

Recent reports

Birds of the West Indies

On the marsh: a year surrounded by wildness and wet

Gulls Simplified: a comparative approach to identification

Unusual hunting method of Short-eared Owl

Carrion Crows dropping freshwater mussels

Red Kite attempting to snatch fishing discards at sea

The sad exile of the UK’s leading ornithological library

The Falcated Duck in Britain

Falcated Duck in Norfolk: new to Britain

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