The birdwatching year 2000

01 December 2001
Comments Main paper This report summarises the major bird movements and influxes of the year 2000, as well as including the rarity highlights. Unless stated otherwise, all the rarity records noted here have been accepted by the British Birds Rarities Committee (see Brit. ...
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Mystery Photographs

01 April 1998
Comments Main paper "Mixed flocks of Dalmatian Pelicans Pelecanus crispus and White Pelicans P. onocrotalus do occur, but the two are most often seen separately, and a typical view is of a small party of one or the other species in flight overhead. Mystery photograph A, t...
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Mystery Photographs

01 March 1998
Comments Main paper When Britain and Ireland's first Ring-billed Gull Lams delawarensis was discovered in Glamorgan in March 1973, there were already over 60 North American species on the British & Irish List. By January 1988, however, Ring-billed Gull had become our ...
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Mystery Photographs

01 December 1997
Comments Main paper American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus is less-common and less-migratory than Eurasian Oystercatcher H. ostralegus. Though its breeding range includes the eastern seaboard of the USA, from Florida north to New England, the species has yet to be re...
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Mystery Photographs

01 July 1997
Comments Main paper Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus breeds in eastern Siberia, Alaska and Canada and winters from Nicaragua south to northern Peru and northern Brazil. Swainson's Thrash C. ustulatus breeds in Canada and the USA and winters from central Mexico so...
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Mystery Photographs

01 May 1997
Comments Main paper Two small, dark swifts with white rumps are found in the Western Palearctic: Little Swift Apus affinis, which, though recorded in Britain and Ireland on ten occasions up to the end of 1994, breeds no nearer than Northwest Africa, and White-rumped ...
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Notes

01 April 1997
Comments Notes On 8th April 1992, while visiting Fes, Morocco, we observed many Alpine Swifts Apus melba feeding very low over the city, some foraging only 3 m above the ground and between the buildings. Many were evidently in poor condition; three were picked up fro...
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Notes

01 October 1996
Comments Notes On 21st June 1992, along the Basingstoke Canal, Hampshire, I came across a family of Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis. While watching the adults feeding their four young, I noticed a Pike Esox lucius about 30 cm long approach through the clear wate...
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Mystery photographs

01 September 1996
Comments Main paper Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus is a rare visitor to Britain and Ireland which has become even rarer in recent years. A total of 47 was recorded here up to the end of 1957, 67 during 1958-83 and just 14 from 1984 to the end of 1994. An indi...
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