Recent reports

01 January 2010
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early November to early December 2009. Headlines During a very stormy period, it was birds at sea that caught the eye most, with the best being a Fregetta storm-petrel in the Severn estuary, a Pacific Diver nearby...
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Reviews

01 January 2010
Comments Reviews By Paul Mason and Jake Allsop Poyser, 2009 Hbk, 280pp, many photographs, vignettes and tables ISBN 978-0-7136-7683-9 Subbuteo code M20081 £45.00 BB Bookshop price £36.00 This is the latest in the long-running and gener- ally excellent series ...
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Letters

01 January 2010
Comments Letters In 2007, I was surprised to read (in Flood & Thomas 2007, p. 418) that I had seen a dark- rumped Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus near South Georgia, when what I saw was a bird with markings resembling those of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma le...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 June 1986
Comments Other 'PROBABLE SNOW-GEESE IN ESSEX. I have received a communication from Major J. Thornhill, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, to the effect that while he was searching the marshes in the neighbourhood ofthat place on April 13th, 1911, he observed two pairs of birds whi...
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Notes

01 June 1986
Comments Notes Great Crested Grebe grasped the neck of the Little Grebe in its bill and appeared to be trying to submerge it under the water. After several seconds, during which it gave frequent yelping calls, the Little Grebe managed to free itself, but it appeared ...
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