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Response to ‘Bird flu strikes a seabird city’

01 July 2023 Comments Letters ...

Bird flu strikes a seabird city – a personal view from Bempton

01 May 2023 Comments BB eye ...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2020

01 October 2021 Comments Main paper ...

Ranging behaviour of Northern Gannets

01 March 2018 Comments Main paper ...

A count of Northern Gannets on Grassholm in 2015

01 November 2015 Comments Notes ...

The Bass Rock - now the world's largest Northern Gannet colony

12 December 2014 Comments Main paper By Stuart Murray, Sarah Wanless and Mike Harris Abstract An aerial survey of the Northern Gannet Morus bassanus colony on the Bass Rock in 2014 found 75,259 Apparently Occupied Sites, a 24% increase since 2009. ...

Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters D o some Wallcreepers migrate? Recent letters by David Elias, H. G. Alexander and Guy Mountfort on the movements of the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria referred respectively to observations in Cyprus (Brit. Birds, 63: 393-394) and the Indo-Pakistan subc...

South Polar and Great Skuas: the timing of primary moult as an aid to identification

11 June 2013 Comments Main paper By Dick Newell, Steve Howell and Dani López-Velasco Abstract The plumages and moult cycles of immature large skuas are poorly known, and some first-year Great Skuas Stercorarius skua can closely resemb...

Northern Gannets in the North Sea

01 February 2011 Comments Main paper Abstract Field observations around the largest Northern Gannet Morus bassanus colony in the North Sea, the Bass Rock, showed that 66% of all Gannets foraged in areas with very low densities of conspecifics, more than 100 km fr...

Letter

01 August 2008 Comments Letters It is now over a decade since the first of three recent controversial large skuas turned up in Britain, and the debate on their identity continues to ebb and flow. Jiguet (2007) was among the more recent to discuss the three birds – in Dorset, in J...