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February 2020 – contents

01 February 2020 Comments Latest issues ... Read More

Birds of the West Indies

01 January 2020 Comments Reviews ... Read More

Gulls Simplified: a comparative approach to identification

01 January 2020 Comments Reviews ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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... Read More

Falcated Duck in Norfolk: new to Britain

01 January 2020 Comments Short paper ... Read More

The RSPB Centre for Conservation Science

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BB eye: The Delta Birding Festival

01 January 2020 Comments Editorials Since the UK Birdfair started, in 1989, similar events have sprung up in many other countries, notably in South America, but there are also several in Spain: in Extremadura, Doñana (two, in fact) and in the spectacular Ebro Delta, about halfway betwee... Read More

My patch – east Somerset

01 December 2019 Comments Editorials East Somerset is an amazing, and very much under-watched, area. I’m very fortunate that within an easy walk, or a few minutes’ drive of home, there are two of the best patches. Birding to the sound of lions roaring, whilst giraffes ambl... Read More