Recent reports

01 March 1989
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th January to 10th February 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Billingham (Cleveland), from at least 31st January. Long-billed Dowitcher L...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1989
Comments Other December's wader (Brit. Birds 81: plate 353) was named by entrants as: Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (73%) Least Sandpiper C. minutilla (12%) Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (7%) Temminck's Stint C. temminckii (3%), with a small n u m b e r of entr...
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News and Comment

01 March 1989
Comments News and comment Official opening by Tony Soper o f'The ZEISS West Germany Wild Goose Observatory' at The Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, November 1988. Left to right, Dr Brian Bertram (Director General), Lady Scott, Sir Peter Scott, Miss Eileen Parsons (Z...
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Reviews

01 March 1989
Comments Reviews The Birdwatcher's Yearbook and Diary 1989. Edited by John Pemberton. Buckingham Press, Maids Moreton, 1988. 320 pages; 17 black-and-white plates; 8 line-drawings. Paperback £8.75. The format follows very closely that of previous years, with some ...
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