Recent reports

01 February 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 4th-17th January 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records . Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Filey Brigg (North Yorkshire), 13th January. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Near Hornea...
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Request and Announcement

01 February 1993 Comments Editorials Blue Tits and flowering currants. It has been known since 1917 that Blue Tits Parus caeruleus feed on the nectar of the flowering currant Ribes sanguineum, which flowers from February to April. The tit pecks a 1-mm to 2-mm oval hole in the ba...
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News and Comment

01 February 1993 Comments News and comment A YEAR-LONG INVESTIGATION by the RSPB, the Nederlandse Vereniging tot Bescherming van Vogels (NVBV) and Tanzanian conservationists has revealed a thriving trade in protected species in Tanzania. Forged paperwork is almost the norm, many species banned ...
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Notes

01 February 1993 Comments Notes Black-headed Gulls foraging behind motor vehicle. On 18th October 1989, while returning from Hilbre Island across the sands to West Kirby, on the Wirral, Cheshire, I noticed a Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus following our Land Rover, Keeping between...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1993 Comments Other The streaky seed-eater (Brit. Birds 85: plate 265) was named as follows: Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis (39%) Linnet Carduelis cannabina (35%) Twite Carduelis flavirostris (17%) Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus (6%) Snowfinch Montifringtlla ...
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Letters

01 February 1993 Comments Letters The Cape Clear 'Griffons' The difficulty which Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus have in maintaining flapping flight for substantial periods over the sea makes it highly improbable that the five unidentified eagle-like birds observed flying past Cape Clear ...
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Reviews

01 February 1993 Comments Reviews Grouse in Space and Time: the population biology of a managed gamebird. By Peter J. Hudson. Game Conservancy, Fordingbridge, 1992. 63 colour plates; 61 line-drawings. £25.00. Over nine million acres of upland Britain are maintained in a highly ar...
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Recent Reports

01 January 1979 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers October and the first part of November; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to October. The weather was dominated by anticyclones, especially the Azores anticy...
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News and Comment

01 January 1979 Comments News and comment SOC Conference The Scottish Ornithologists' Club held its thirty-first annual conference at the Marine Hotel, North Berwick, on 27th-29th October 1978. This marked a welcome return to an autumn conference, using the venue which had proved so su...
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Request

01 January 1979 Comments Editorials Mute Swans with yellow collars or yellow rings As part of a study of the population structure and dynamics of wild Mute Swans Cygnus olor in the Outer Hebrides, 385 were caught and marked on the Uists in the first half of August 1978. All the f...
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