Issue 5

British Birds May 2014

01 May 2014 Comments Latest issues ...

BB eye: Citizen Action for Swifts

01 May 2014 Comments Editorials By Dick Newell In 2009, there were approximately 5.3 million breeding pairs of House Sparrow Passer domesticus in the UK as well as 1.9 million pairs of Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris (Musgrove et al. 2013)...

News and comment

22 May 2014 Comments News and comment For every 1,000 Oriental White-backed Vultures Gyps bengalensis found in southern Asia in the 1980s, only one remains today. They've been wiped out by diclofenac - a drug used to treat pain and inflammation in livestock. Alarmingly, South African resea...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2008-10: passerines

01 May 2014 Comments Main paper By Steve White and Chris Kehoe Abstract This report summarises the scarce passerine migrants recorded in Britain during 2008-10. Three good years for Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica (the second-, fourth- and sixth-highes...

First British records of 'Eastern' and 'Western' Subalpine Warblers

01 May 2014 Comments Main paper By Martin Collinson, Bob McGowan and Martin Irestedt Abstract The recent proposal to reorganise the taxonomy of the Subalpine Warbler complex, and the identification of the first British 'Subalpine Warbler' (St Kilda, June 1894)...

When do falls rush in? Notes on the timing and frequency of falls in north Norfolk and Fair Isle

01 May 2014 Comments Main paper By Richard Aspinall Abstract Records of falls of thrushes in north Norfolk in autumn, and falls of all passerine species on Fair Isle in both spring and autumn, were analysed to establish dates and frequency of falls. A ...

Recent reports

01 May 2014 Comments This summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early March to early April 2014. ...

Talking point

01 May 2014 Comments Editorials ...

Nightingales sing again after 90 years

01 May 2014 Comments News and comment Ninety years to the day since the first outside broadcast of Nightingale song on the BBC, the RSPB has decided to do it all over again to celebrate the anniversary and mark the plight of the threatened, long-distance migrant bird. Live from a site in nor...

Hopes soar for threatened albatrosses

01 May 2014 Comments News and comment Later today [Tuesday 13 May 2014] at a special event at Fishmonger's Hall in London, HRH The Prince of Wales, will hear of the success of a collaboration that is saving the lives of 99% of the globally-threatened albatrosses that would otherwise have acci...

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Volume 107 Issue 5

British Birds May 2014

BB eye: Citizen Action for Swifts

News and comment

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2008-10: passerines

First British records of 'Eastern' and 'Western' Subalpine Warblers

When do falls rush in? Notes on the timing and frequency of falls in north Norfolk and Fair Isle

Recent reports

Talking point

Nightingales sing again after 90 years

Hopes soar for threatened albatrosses

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