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01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...

Recent reports

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...

News and comment

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...

Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1995

01 November 1996 Comments Main paper After another year of excellent co-operation with many people, the British Birds Rarities Committee presents a comprehensive Report. The BBRC may be perceived as isolated and remote, but it is part of a network involving individual observers, county re...

Announcement

01 August 1978 Comments Editorials YOC cover design competition The competition for members of the Young Ornithologists' Club to design a cover for British Birds was won by Paul Spencer, of Horsham, West Sussex. His design 'Lonely sky' appears on the cover and is reproduced in b...

Letters

01 August 1978 Comments Letters Gallocanta Lagoon, Spain: an appeal We should like to draw the attention of British ornithologists to Gallocanta Lagoon, a wetland in northeast Spain. This lagoon, the very existence of which is scarcely known outside Spain, has in recent years...

Reviews

01 August 1978 Comments Reviews Cruickshank's Photographs of Birds of America. By Alan D. Cruickshank. Constable, London, 1978. ix + 182 pages; 177 blackand-white photographs. Paperback, £4.25. This is primarily a set of very fine black-and-white photographs by the lat...

Notes

01 August 1978 Comments Notes Storm Petrels chasing albino At 06.00 GMT on 7th August 1977, on Bardsey, Gwynedd, my assistant warden, Trevor Jones, watched four Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus for over 1½ minutes as they flew south close along the west coast. Three were...

Personalities. 16. S. C. Madge

01 August 1978 Comments Main paper When Steve Madge first saw the light of day at Tor Point, Cornwall, in the winter of 1948, his mother gained what must have been the prototype bundle of joy and British ornithology one of its more colourful characters. His early days were spe...

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