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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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Field-notes on some Asian Leaf-Warblers-I

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper ONLY three species of leaf-warblers or willow-warblers* (Phylloscopus) are common and regular visitors to Britain, but twelve forms, belonging to nine different species, have been recorded at one time or another. These, however, represent less than half t...

Do English Woodpigeons Migrate?

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper T H E object of this short paper is to draw attention to a curious problem in the hope that others will help in solving it. The observations here described, made independently by Lack round Oxford and by Ridpath in Kent and Sussex, cannot be satisfactoril...

Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXV. Marmora's Warbler

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper (Plates 41-44) THOUGH the Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata) is to be found on the islands of the western Mediterranean, it is there much outnumbered by its close relative, Marmora's Warbler (S. sarda), which has a very limited range from Tunis, Algeria, an...

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