Recent reports

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid August to mid September 2004. Canvasback Aythya valisineria Private site (Kent), 15th August. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca Chew Valley Lake (Somerset), 20th August to 1st September. Zino's/Fea's Petrel Pterod...
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News and Comment

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Crake Crex crex is a familiar, if depressing, story. Mechanical mowing and the early harvesting of crops, before the end of the breeding season, have had a catastrophic effect on Corn Crakes in Britain and across much of western Eu...
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Conservation research news

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment One of the assumptions that scientists often make about territorial birds is that individuals will choose the best breeding sites available. Consequently, when populations are small, every individual occupies a high-quality site but, as populations grow, ...
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The Carl Zeiss Award 2004

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper One of the difficulties for the judging panel of the Carl Zeiss Award, for photographs of rarities assessed by the BBRC during the preceding year, is that we have to think of something new to say in our report each year. This year it was easy, in fact it ...
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AudouinÕs Gull: new to Britain

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A second-summer Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii was found at Dungeness, Kent, on 5th May 2003. It lingered in the area for the remainder of the day, commuting between the shore and nearby pools on the RSPB reserve. It was present again the followi...
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Recent reports

01 February 1968 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary mainly concerns December, which is generally a quiet month. This year, too, most observers kept away from agricultural land because of the foot-andmouth epidemic and so it is no...
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News and comments

01 February 1968 Comments News and comment Conference on local bird reports.--About 70 editors and editorial representatives of some 50 local and regional bird reports attended a conference held at Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 15th to 17th September 1967. The conference was only the second of its ki...
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Request for information

01 February 1968 Comments Editorials Distribution and numbers of Collared Doves.--In 1965 Robert Hudson traced the spread of the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto in Britain and Ireland from the time of the first breeding record in 1955 up to the end of 1964 {Brit. Birds, 58: 105-139). He ...
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Letters

01 February 1968 Comments Letters Width of tail-band of immature Mediterranean Gulls Sirs,--As the plumage of immature Mediterranean Gulls Larus melanocephalus was described in some detail by P. J. Grant and R. E. Scott (Brit. Birds, 60: 365-368), it seems a pity that they did not mention...
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