Recent reports

01 March 1993
Comments News and comment This summary cover s the period 18th January to 14th February 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records.   American Wigeon Anas americana Male, Whitegate (Co. Cork), January to at least 8th February. American Black D...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1993
Comments Other The grey-and-black-and-white bird in December's puzzle picture (Brit. Birds 85: plate 322) was named by entrants as: Caspian Tern Sterna caspia (42%) Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica (40%) Laughing Gull Larus atricilla (6%) Whiskered Tern Ch...
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News and Comment

01 March 1993
Comments News and comment LAST CENTURY, Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde supported a quarter of a million pairs of Puffins Fratercula arctica, then common rats Rattus norwegicus got ashore. Slowly but surely, Puffins-- and other seabirds as well as vegetation--were devastated ...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 March 1993
Comments Other 'The nesting of a pair of Snowy Owls Nyctea scandiaca on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1967 was the first substantiated record in the wild in the British Isles. Publicity was inevitable and so the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds organised a round...
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