Recent reports

01 January 1993 Comments Editorials This summary covers the period 13th November 1992 to 3rd January 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Argal Reservoir, Falmouth (Cornwall), from at least 27th November to at least 3r...
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Letter

01 September 1982 Comments Letters Mortality of Sparrowhawks and Kestrels The findings of Newton et al. (Brit. Birds 75: 195-204) are similar in most respects to ours (Keymer et al. 1981). We wish to comment, however, on some important differences, especially regarding...
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Notes

01 September 1982 Comments Notes Male Montagu's Harrier with broad white rump patch On 19th June 1978, south of the River Guadalquivir near Lebrija, Spain, D.J. Fisher, S.J. M. Gantlett and I saw a male Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus which was typical in every way of an adu...
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Mystery photographs

01 September 1982 Comments Main paper With really good views there is no problem in separating Bridled Sterna anaethetus and Sooty Terns S. fuscata. Only one other species comes into the reckoning: in view of the recent addition of Aleutian Tern S. aleutica to the western Palearctic list, ...
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