Recent reports

01 June 1999
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers 5th April to 9th May 1999. The text and photographs relate to unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Thompson Water (Norfolk), 30th April to 9th May; Rostellan (Co. C...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1999
Comments Other `Monthly marathon' Photo no. 154. Third stage in eleventh `Marathon'. Identify the species. Read the rules below, then send your answer on a postcard to Monthly Marathon, Fountains, Park Lane, Blunham, Bedford MK44 3NJ, to arrive by 15th July 1999.1. O...
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Reviews

01 June 1999
Comments Reviews By Les Beletsky. Academic Press, London, 1998. 488 pages; 104 colour plates and numerous colour photographs and line-drawings. ISBN 0-212-084811-2. Softback, £19.95. At last, a single book which helps the visitor to identify all the larger-than-an-ins...
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News and Comment

01 June 1999
Comments News and comment At the turn of the year, the BTO registered its 10,000th volunteer to take part in Garden BirdWatch, in which observers note the common birds visiting their gardens each week throughout the year. From these records, the data can be analysed to show how...
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Looking back

01 June 1999
Comments Other `The following notes were made... in those extensive woods which once formed part of the Forest of Feckenham, Worcestershire... At first I heard nothing more than Thrushes, Blackbirds and Nightingales, except a Nightjar... A WoodWarbler was singing amo...
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Letters

01 June 1999
Comments Letters THE CIRL BUNTING IN BRITAIN I should like to comment on the letters by R. D. Penhallurick and Michael Shrubb (Brit. Birds 91: 146-148, 331-332) concerning the distribution of the Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus in Britain covered in the paper by Dr Andy E...
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Bird Photograph of the Year 1999

01 June 1999
Comments Main paper Many of the photographers entering this competition will be well known by name to readers, as their work is regularly seen in bird books and popular magazines. The fact that the top photographers enter is a sign of the prestigious status of this annual...
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European News

01 June 1999
Comments Main paper `European News' is the only reliable, continent-wide report on trends and significant nationally accepted records of rarities. Some of the highlights in this forty-fifth report include: · 60,000-86,000 singing male Corn Crakes Crex crex in `the Baltic...
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