Table Of Content

British Birds Volume 98 (2005) Main contents January 2 _ Seabirds at sea in summer in the northwest North Sea Kees Camphuysen 20 The status of Lady Amherst’s Pheasant in Britain Barry Nightingale 26 Long-tailed Shrike: new to Britain Andrew Stevenson 32 A review of the identification of ‘Balearic’ Woodchat Shrike, and details of three British records Brian J. Small and Grahame Walbridge February 58 Studies of West Palearctic birds: Turtle Dove Stephen Browne and Nicholas Aebischer 73 Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2002 Part 2: American Wigeon to Ring-billed Gull Peter A. Fraser and Michael J. Rogers 89 Identification review — Lesser Scaup Colin Bradshaw March 116 Recent declines in populations of woodland birds in Britain: a review of possible causes Robert J. Fuller, David G. Noble, Ken W. Smith and Des Vanhinsbergh 144 The BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2004 John Marchant, Richard Chandler, Andrew Gosler, Peter Hearn, Robin Prytherch and Bob Scott April 174 The avifauna of Bialowieza Forest: a window into the past Ludwik Tomia/ojé and Tomasz Wesolowski 194 Birds and windfarms: what are the real issues? Steve Percival May 230 The Tadcaster rarities Tim Melling 238 Weather and bird migration Norman Elkins June 280 The status of Northern Gannet in Britain & Ireland in 2003/04 Sarah Wanless, Stuart Murray and Michael P. Harris 295 The former status of Great Bustard in Britain Estlin Waters and David Waters 306 Black Lark: new to Britain Lance Degnan and Ken Croft July 338 Urban gulls: problems and solutions Peter Rock 356 The Fair Isle sandpiper: a review Martin Garner August 396 ‘Siberian Chiffchaff’ revisited Alan R. Dean and Lars Svensson 411 Red Kites and rodenticides — a feeding experiment Dionysios Ntampakis and lan Carter 417 Bird Photograph of the Year 2005 Richard Chandler, Tim Appleton and David Hosking September 454 Birds, landscape and land use Christopher F. Mason 468 Status and behaviour of Little Egrets wintering in western France Claire Voisin, José Godin and Alain Fleury 476 The Sociable Lapwing in Eurasia: what does the future hold? Viktor P. Belik October 512 Taxonomy for birders: a beginner’s guide to DNA and species problems Norman Maclean, Martin Collinson and Richard G. Newell 538 Species limits in the Red-breasted Flycatcher Lars Svensson, Martin Collinson, Alan G. Knox, David T. Parkin and George Sangster 542 Taiga Flycatcher in East Yorkshire: new to Britain P. Andrew Lassey 547 Taiga Flycatcher in Shetland Mark Chapman November 570 Saving the Sky Lark: new solutions for a declining farmland bird Paul F. Donald and Tony J. Morris 579 Population size, breeding biology and origins of Scottish Purple Sandpipers Rik D. Smith and Ron W. Summers 589 Discovering the breeding grounds of Ross’s Gull: 100 years on HenryA .M cGhie and Dmitri V. Logunov 600 The Carl Zeiss Award 2005 Colin Bradshaw, Chris Bradshaw, Chris Kehoe and Roger Riddington December 628 Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2004 M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee