Recent reports

01 August 1999
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers 7th June to 5th July 1999. The text and photographs relate to unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris One 16 km south of Looe (Cornwall), 19th June, photographed...
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News and Comment

01 August 1999
Comments News and comment We all know the story of the toxic sludge that spilled from the Aznalcollar mine in Spain on 25th April 1998. Spanish conservationists claim that some 70,000 birds have been heavily contaminated. There is still uncertainty about continuing environmenta...
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Monthly marathon

01 August 1999
Comments Other The affinities of the dumpy, small-billed bird depicted in June's photograph (plate 104, repeated here as plate 159) may not have been immediately obvious to some readers, the bird perhaps bearing a resemblance to a dove Streptopelia or even a lark (Al...
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Reviews

01 August 1999
Comments Reviews By Lars Svensson & Peter J. Grant; illustrated by Killian Mullarney & Dan Zetterstrøm; translated by David Christie. HarperCollins, London, 1999. 400 pages; 3,500 paintings; about 700 distribution maps. ISBN 0-00-219728-6. Hardback £24.99. We...
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