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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Letter

01 December 2009
Comments Letters The two outlying Orkney islets north of Cape Wrath usually known to ornithologists as Sule Skerry and Sule Stack, and on charts as Sule Skerry and Stack Skerry (Brit. Birds 100: 300–­304), present problems of nomenclature. Until recently, `Solan Gee...
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Notes

01 December 2009
Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...
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Reviews

01 September 1983
Comments Reviews British Garden Birds. Video-cassette presented by David Attenborough. BBC Enterprises Ltd, 1981. Duration 72 minutes. The idea of having a simple identification guide to British garden birds which can be viewed at home on the television screen ...
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Short reviews

01 September 1983
Comments Reviews Looking After Cage Birds: keep and care. By David Alderton. (Ward Lock, 1982. £6.95) E.g. budgies. Birds of Britain and Europe. By Neil Ardley. (Kingfisher Books, 1983. Paperback, £1.95) Oh dear! When will Kingfisher Books learn? The illustrations ha...
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Recent reports

01 September 1983
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records  Dates given in this report refer to June unless stated differently. The weather during the first half of the month was unsettled and cold, with frequent rain: the air originat...
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News and comment

01 September 1983
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'   Donana developments The Marismas of the Guadalquivir is one of Europe's greatest wetlands, familiar to British ornithologists through Guy Mountf...
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Announcements

01 September 1983
Comments Editorials 'The Big Bird Race' You heard about it on the grapevine, you read about it in the newspapers, you saw last year's one on television, now you can buy the book! The accounts of the 'Country Life' versus Fauna & Flora Preservation Society 24-h...
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