Recent reports

01 February 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 4th-17th January 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records . Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Filey Brigg (North Yorkshire), 13th January. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Near Hornea...
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Request and Announcement

01 February 1993 Comments Editorials Blue Tits and flowering currants. It has been known since 1917 that Blue Tits Parus caeruleus feed on the nectar of the flowering currant Ribes sanguineum, which flowers from February to April. The tit pecks a 1-mm to 2-mm oval hole in the ba...
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News and Comment

01 February 1993 Comments News and comment A YEAR-LONG INVESTIGATION by the RSPB, the Nederlandse Vereniging tot Bescherming van Vogels (NVBV) and Tanzanian conservationists has revealed a thriving trade in protected species in Tanzania. Forged paperwork is almost the norm, many species banned ...
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Notes

01 February 1993 Comments Notes Black-headed Gulls foraging behind motor vehicle. On 18th October 1989, while returning from Hilbre Island across the sands to West Kirby, on the Wirral, Cheshire, I noticed a Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus following our Land Rover, Keeping between...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1993 Comments Other The streaky seed-eater (Brit. Birds 85: plate 265) was named as follows: Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis (39%) Linnet Carduelis cannabina (35%) Twite Carduelis flavirostris (17%) Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus (6%) Snowfinch Montifringtlla ...
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Letters

01 February 1993 Comments Letters The Cape Clear 'Griffons' The difficulty which Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus have in maintaining flapping flight for substantial periods over the sea makes it highly improbable that the five unidentified eagle-like birds observed flying past Cape Clear ...
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Reviews

01 February 1993 Comments Reviews Grouse in Space and Time: the population biology of a managed gamebird. By Peter J. Hudson. Game Conservancy, Fordingbridge, 1992. 63 colour plates; 61 line-drawings. £25.00. Over nine million acres of upland Britain are maintained in a highly ar...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 March 1986 Comments Other 'SHAG IN SUFFOLK. ON January 23rd, 1911, an immature Shag (Phalacrocorax graculus) was sent to me by post with a request to name it, and the following account of its capture:--"My son was riding his bicycle home the other evening about 7.30, and the bi...
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Recent reports

01 March 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to December unless otherwise stated. Wet, cloudy, westerly weather with aboveaverage temperatures persisted throughout most of the month until 26th, ...
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Reviews

01 March 1986 Comments Reviews Log for Birdwatching. By Trevor Dolby. Charles Letts, London, 1985. 96 pages; many colour illustrations and line drawings. £2.95. One of a Letts series of pocket booklets covering various hobbies, the Log for Birdwatching illustrates and describe...
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