Volume 110 Issue 8

BB eye: Photography is transforming British birdwatching

15 August 2017 Comments Editorials By Paul Jepson One Sunday last July I strolled down to the hide at RSPB Otmoor, one of my local birding patches in Oxfordshire. Five years ago I might have entered an empty hide. Not anymore. The place was packed with bird photographers, happi... Read More

Great bird reserves: RSPB Minsmere

03 August 2017 Comments Main paper By Adam Rowlands Abstract Minsmere, which celebrated its 70th anniversary as an RSPB reserve in 2017, has been an inspiration to naturalists and birdwatchers through its variety of habitats and species, its role in saving some... Read More

The Carl Zeiss Award 2017

06 August 2017 Comments Main paper The Carl Zeiss Award is awarded for the best rarity submission of the year. This... Read More

Primary spacing as a field identification criterion for Iberian Chiffchaff

06 August 2017 Comments Main paper By Marcel Gil-Velasco Abstract Differences in the primary spacing between Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus and Common Chiffchaff P. collybita are described, based on measurements from good-quality pho... Read More

Reviews

01 August 2017 Comments Reviews ... Read More

Recent reports

01 August 2017 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers early June to early July 2017. ... Read More

A glimmer of hope for the Curlew

31 August 2017 Comments News and comment We have lost almost half of our breeding Curlews during the last 20 years and a scientific paper, just published in the journal Bird Study, looks at the reasons why. The UK holds almost a third of the global breeding populati... Read More