Recent reports

01 May 1990
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 16th March to 5th April 1990. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. American Bittern Botaurus stellaris Ballycotton (Co. Cork), 25th March. Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus Ballycotton, 16th-17t...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1990
Comments Main paper Th e February photograph (plate 42) was named Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis Little Tern S. albifrons Common Tern S. hirundo Arctic Tern S. paradisaea Roseate Tern S. dougallii Lesser Crested Tern S. bengalensis Crested Tern S. bergii,&nbs...
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If the caption fits . . .

01 May 1990
Comments Editorials This Black-headed Gull Lams ridibundus (plate 125, opposite) was photographed in Suffolk in November 1977 by Terry Bond, who suggested that the bird is saying: 'You wouldn't believe how many people identify me as a Laughing Gull!' Can you think of an e...
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News and comment

01 May 1990
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Peter Grant. We greatly regret having to inform BB readers that, only a short time after diagnosis of incurable abdominal cancer, Peter Grant died on 16th April. T...
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Short reviews

01 May 1990
Comments Reviews Hummingbirds. By Andrew Cleave. (Hamlyn, London, 1989. 128 pages. £12.95) Essentially a vehicle for presenting 67 fine hummingbird photographs, nearly half of them of the 16 North American species. The first six of the seven short chapters intraduce s...
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Fieldwork action

01 May 1990
Comments Editorials BTO at the Chelsea Flower Show. The BTO is attending the Chelsea Flower Show during 21st-25th May to focus on the Garden Bird Projects. First, the Garden Bird Feeding Survey which looks at feeding through the winter and is a year-round nationwide surve...
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Announcements

01 May 1990
Comments Editorials Reports on scarce migrant birds. To complement the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain' (e.g. Brit. Birds 82: 505-563) and report on 'Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom' (e.g. Brit. Birds 82: 477-504), we shall soon be starting an annu...
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Letters

01 May 1990
Comments Letters What is Cox's Sandpiper? A critical line of text was dropped by my word-processor prior to the submission to British Birds of the text of my paper on 'The World's first known juvenile Cox's Sandpiper' {Brit. Birds 81: 253-257). Unfortunately, the remai...
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Notes

01 May 1990
Comments Notes Wren fighting with Cetti's Warbler. At 07.30 GMT on 9th August 1987, at Abbey Mead Lake, Newhythe, Kent, I noticed a Wren Troglodytes troglodytes and a Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti fighting on the ground. They were locked in battle, and I came to withi...
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Mystery photographs

01 May 1990
Comments Main paper The combination of long tail, long tertials, unstreaked plumage and very prominent double wingbar should readily identify last month's mystery bird (plate 102, repeated here as plate 123) as a wagtail Motacilla. The wingbars are too prominent for Grey ...
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