Recent BBRC decisions

01 March 2003
Comments News and comment This regular listing of the most recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual `Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 2003
Comments Other For most participants, the bird featured in Monthly Marathon photo number 194 (Brit. Birds 95: plate 347, repeated here as plate 97 was immediately apparent as a skua (Stercorariidae). Only a gull (Laridae) has similar structural proportions and overal...
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Reviews

01 March 2003
Comments Reviews STONECHATS: A GUIDE TO THE GENUS SAXICOLA By Ewan Urquhart, illustrated by Adam Bowley. Christopher Helm, A&C Black, London, 2002. 320 pages; 14 colour plates; 92 colour photos; distribution maps. ISBN 0-7136-6024-4. Hardback, £37.00. This...
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