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Recent reports

01 January 1989 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 14th November 1988 to 2nd January 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Bewick's Swan Cygnus columbianus Adult of nominate race, Durleigh Reservoir (Somerset), several dates from 27th Novemb...

Monthly reports: September 1988

01 January 1989 Comments News and comment The month began with a spell of very unsettled westerly weather. A depression centred off the west coast of Scotland brought strong-to-gale-force northwest-to-westerly winds across Britain and Ireland, especially on 2nd. In the north of Scotland, the w...

Recent reports: Monthly reports

01 January 1989 Comments Editorials We have been striving constantly to increase the usefulness of this popular, regular feature. With 'Recent reports' now appearing separately, and with the twitchers' grapevine now formalised, making up-to-the-minute news of rarities available to all fo...

Gray Catbird in Co. Cork: new to Britain and Ireland

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Field identification of Gull-billed Tern

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Notes

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Letters

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Purple Sandpipers breeding in Scotland

01 December 1983 Comments Main paper Purple Sandpipers Calidris maritima were first recorded breeding in Scotland in 1978. Brief details of that event and subsequent breeding at the same locality have appeared in the annual Scottish Bird Reports and in the reports of the Rare Breeding Bir...

Studies of west Palearctic birds. 186. Bearded Tit

01 December 1983 Comments Main paper The Bearded Tit (as I shall insist on calling it) Panurus biarmicus is a rather peculiar bird. Taxonomically, there is nothing else like it. It even has a newly described species of feather mite not yet known from any other bird (Cerny 1978). It is con...

Requests

01 December 1983 Comments Editorials Winter Atlas The BTO/IWC Winter Atlas is now in its third and final year of fieldwork. Counts of birds are wanted from all areas, but help is especially needed in parts of northwest Scotland, southwest England and Ireland. If you are able to help, plea...

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