Recent reports

01 June 1990
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 6th April to 10th May 1990 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides Elmley RSPB Reserve (Kent), 7th-10th May. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Near Freshwater (Isle of Wigh...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1990
Comments Main paper Entrants obviously found this an easier problem than we had expected. We thought that many more readers would be led astray by the streaked (almost striped) lower breast/belly of this Redwing, showing the dark and strongly marked underparts of the Icel...
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News and comment

01 June 1990
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. A word from the authors. The 'News and comment' postbag contains a growing number of what amount to requests for free advertising for all manner of products. Unles...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 June 1990
Comments Other 'BIRDS AND SHELL-FIRE. I have lately been reading various articles in the papers regarding birds in the war-stricken parts of France, so I thought you might care to have a few of my personal observations on this subject . . . The House-Sparrows continu...
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