News and comment

01 December 2009
Comments News and comment The illegal persecution of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus rarely attracts mainstream media coverage – but it was national news at the end of October! Two Hen Harriers were shot on the edge of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk and police interviewed Prin...
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Notes

01 December 1971
Comments Notes Interaction of Short-eared Owl, Kestrel and H e n Harrier over pipit prey I read with interest the note by T. M. Clegg and D. S. Henderson (Brit. Birds, 64: 317-318) on a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus taking prey from a Short-eared Owl Asia flammeus. At 09.40...
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American Marsh Hawk in Norfolk

01 December 1971
Comments Main paper This is the long-delayed story of an immature ring-tailed harrier Circus sp that wintered in the area of Cley and Salthouse, Norfolk, from October 1957 to April 1958. Plans for the co-authorship of an earlier paper foundered and with the passage of time t...
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