Recent reports

01 November 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 18th September to 15th October 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus (Cornwall), 13th-14th Octob...
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News and comment

01 November 1995
Comments News and comment We mentioned last month (Brit. Birds 88: 490) that a way had been found of securing money for conservation from the National Lottery through the National Heritage Memorial Fund. News has now reached us that a grant from this fund of £75,147 has been g...
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Reviews

01 November 1995
Comments Reviews Irish Birds. By David Cabot. (HarperCollins, London, 1995. 224 pages. ISBN 0-00-220023-6. Paperback £7.99) The common Irish birds (143 species) each receive one page, including one or two paintings and around 150-200 words of text, covering habitat, b...
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Requests

01 November 1995
Comments Editorials For possible publication in future papers in BB, we welcome colour transparencies, colour prints or black-and-white prints of the following: Ruddy Shelducks Tadoma ferruginea in Britain Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus American Pluvialis domini...
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Announcements

01 November 1995
Comments Editorials Entries are invited for the fifth annual award (see accounts of the first, second, third and fourth awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173; 88: 218-220), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Britain and Ireland which pub...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1995
Comments Main paper This month's mystery bird (plate 197 on page 559, repeated overleaf as plate 199) is a small, relatively dull passerine with no obvious markings. The combination of unstreaked warm-brown upperparts, steep forehead and relatively fine bill suggests that...
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1995
Comments Other We have a winner! Peter Sunesen (Denmark) has won his choice of SUNBIRD holiday in Africa, Asia or North America by achieving a 17-in-a-row sequence of correct identifications, one more than any other competitor. The two birds in photograph number 109 ...
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Looking Back

01 November 1995
Comments Other One hundred and fifty years ago: 'A List of the Migratory Birds of Provence . . . Great Grey Shrike, Lanius excubitor, and Lanius meridionalis, arrive in March and April, leave in September. These two species are rare. 'Hedge Accentor, Accentor modular...
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