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The Eagle Owl

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Ospreys

01 November 2019 Comments Reviews By Tim Mackrill Bloomsbury, 2019 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series) Sbk, 128pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-1-4729-5603-3; £12.99 It’s always nice to have a choice and for all but the most devoted of Osprey afi...

Woodpeckers

01 November 2019 Comments Reviews By Gerard Gorman Bloomsbury, 2018 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series) Pbk, 128pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-1-4729-5118-2; £9.99 The ‘RSPB Spotlight’ series is shining its bright, if rather narrow, bea...

Ospreys: the revival of a global raptor

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Rebirding: rewilding Britain and its birds

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Garden Birds

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Long-tailed Tits stealing nest material from Eurasian Treecreeper

01 November 2019 Comments Notes On 26th March in Salcey Forest, Northamptonshire, I came across a Eurasian Treecreeper Certhia familiaris building a nest. The site was about 3 m up in an old Oak Quercus robur and behind loose bark, as is usual for this species. I watche...

Ringing recovery of Yellow-browed Warbler in Andalucía confirms overwintering in consecutive winters

01 November 2019 Comments Notes On 2nd January 2017, ST found a Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus in the village of El Pelayo (near Tarifa), in Andalucía, Spain. The bird was subsequently present in an area of Cork Oaks Quercus suber for around six weeks and...

Observation of a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker losing its nest hole to Marsh Tits

01 November 2019 Comments Notes A nationwide initiative to increase the monitoring of breeding Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers Dryobates minor began in 2015, organised by the Woodpecker Network. Volunteers are encouraged to look for Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers in spring and to find ...

The plumage of Red-throated Divers in southern Iceland

01 November 2019 Comments Notes During a recent trip to Iceland, we were struck by the colour of the normally white underparts of some of the Red-throated Divers Gavia stellata at the Flói reserve in southern Iceland (plates 379 & 380). Most of the birds at this site had ...

Important Bird Areas: Ascension Island

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Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2017: part 2, passerines

01 November 2019 Comments Main paper Steve White and Chris Kehoe Introduction This report presents data on scarce passerine migrants recorded in Britain during 2017. For comments on how the data are presented, see ...

News and comment

01 November 2019 Comments News and comment Compiled by Adrian Pitches Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of British Birds. State of Nature 2019 charts continuing biodiversity decline The U...

BB eye: The outlook for wetland conservation

01 November 2019 Comments Editorials James Robinson Last October, I attended the 13th Conference of Parties of the Ramsar Convention, in Dubai. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainab...

November 2019 – contents

01 November 2019 Comments Latest issues The latest State of Nature report, released last month, did little to gladden the heart. It suggests that since the 1970s there has been a 13% decrease in average abundance across the wildlife groups studied in the UK and that the declines continue una...

My patch – Shieldhill Farm

01 October 2019 Comments Editorials My patch comprises Shieldhill Farm and some adjoining land, including the Bennan Loch and Lochcraig Reservoir, and lies close to the town of Eaglesham, in East Renfrewshire, around 15 km south of Glasgow. On the edge of the Eaglesham Moor, the farm is ...

African Raptors

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Wing-tagged Red Kites in England

01 October 2019 Comments Letters In Ian Carter’s excellent article on the Red Kite reintroduction in the August edition (Brit. Birds 112: 422–426) he stated that ‘The birds now present do not carry wing-tags’. I understand that he is talking in the context of the Chilte...

Brood management of Hen Harriers

01 October 2019 Comments Letters It was very disappointing to read the recent account of our work on Hen Harrier conservation in News & comment’ (‘Hen Harriers – good news and bad news’; Brit. Birds 112: 427). As the Natural England directors responsible for this wo...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2018

01 October 2019 Comments Main paper Chas Holt, Paul French and the Rarities Committee Chairman’s introduction This is the 61st annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee, and another which i...

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