Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club

The Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club is an ornithological

Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...

journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

published by the British Ornithologists' Club

British Ornithologists' Club

The British Ornithologists' Club was founded in October 1892 to promote discussion between ornithologists and to produce a journal, their Bulletin, which has been published continuously since that year....

(BOC). It is cited

Citation

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as Bull. B. O. C.

Many descriptions of bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

s new to science

Bird species new to science

This article describes bird species new to science since 1900. Prior to the 20th century, and indeed into its early decades, the pace of discovery of new species was fast; during this period, with numerous collecting expeditions into species-rich areas not previously visited by western...

have been published in the bulletin.

The journal was first published in 1892. It is published in four quarterly issues. The journal's current editor is Guy Kirwan.

List of editors

List of Bulletin Editors with dates of tenure

Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Richard Bowdler Sharpe was an English zoologist.-Biography:Sharpe was born in London and studied at Brighton College, The King's School, Peterborough and Loughborough Grammar School. At the age of sixteen he went to work for Smith & Sons in London...

1892–1904
W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 1904–1914
David Armitage Bannerman
David Armitage Bannerman
David Armitage Bannerman OBE, MA, SD , Hon. LL.D. , FRSE, FZS was a British ornithologist.-Biography:After graduating from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1909, Bannerman travelled extensively in Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Atlantic Islands.Rejected on health grounds by the...

1914–1915
D. Seth-Smith 1915–1920
Percy R. Lowe 1920–1925
Norman B. Kinnear 1925–1930
G. Carmichael Low 1930–1935 and 1940–1945
C. H. B. Grant 1935–1940 and 1947–1952
W. P. C. Tenison 1945–1947
J. G. Harrison 1952–1961
J.J. Yealland 1962–1969
C.W. Benson 1969–1974
Hugh Elliott
Hugh Elliott
Sir Hugh Francis Ivo Elliott, 3rd Baronet was an eminent British ornithologist and administrator of Tristan da Cunha . He attended University College, Oxford, was editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club and was president of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1975 to 1979...

1974–1975
J.F. Monk 1976–1990
D.W. Snow 1991–1997
C.J. Feare 1997–2003
G.M. Kirwan 2004–

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