Looking back

01 February 1999
Comments Other `We had here, in the winter of 1845, immense numbers of the gray phalarope (Phalaropus platyrhynchus). Every winter we have a few, but on this occasion they came in such flocks as had never been before noticed. They appeared to have had a long flight a...
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European News

01 February 1999
Comments Main paper This six-monthly compilation, inaugurated 22 years ago (Brit. Birds 70: 218), provides the only reliable continent-wide summary of important occurrences, ranging from changes in breeding or wintering distributions to irruptions, nationally rare birds a...
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Editorial: Britain & Ireland

01 February 1999
Comments Main paper Should Britain and Ireland be regarded as one coherent unit or two, for the purposes of biological recording? Ireland is quite distinct from Britain. It is an island (with many associated smaller islands and islets), so is easily defined. Quite rightly...
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