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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Recent Reports

01 January 1977
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 special location of the British Isles in the northern...
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News and Comment

01 January 1977
Comments News and comment 'Just a few duck and God knows what else' So said a Shetland Islands councillor about one of Shetland's best known wetlands. Indeed, the latest threat to Shetland's birdlife comes not from oil, but from the bulk of the island's councillors. Des...
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