News and Comment

01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...
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Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...
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Recent reports

01 December 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 18th October to 14th November 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records   Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis North Ronaldsay (Orkney), 1st November. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Near De...
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Mystery photographs

01 December 1993 Comments Main paper This month's mystery photograph (plate 229 on page 621) is obviously of a small passerine with an insectivore's bill. The bird is clearly in very bright light and very deep shade, so that its photographic appearance is a combination of underexposure an...
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News and Comment

01 December 1993 Comments News and comment The folly of hasty decision-making over the management of rotational set-aside has meant that hoped-for improvement in the breeding performance of Sky Larks Alauda arvensis, and other birds using the fields, has not been realised. Monitoring by the BTO...
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Reviews

01 December 1993 Comments Reviews Great Auk Islands: a field biologist in the Arctic. By Tim Birkhead . Illustrated by David Quinn. T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 1993. 275 pages; 14 colour plates; 91 black-and-white plates; 36 line-drawings. ISBN 0-85661-077-1. £22.00....
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Letters

01 December 1993 Comments Letters Daurian Redstart in Scotland. Dr Alan Knox's paper on behalf of the BOU Records Committee on the occurrence of the Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus on the Isle of May, Fife, in 1988 (Brit. Birds 86: 359-366) highlights well the problems of maintai...
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