Recent reports

01 July 1996
Comments News and comment Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Near Bembridge (Isle of Wight), 18th May. Purple Heron Ardea purpurea Tacumshin (Co. Wexford), from mid May to 9th June. Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus Isles of Scilly, mainly St Mary's and Tresco, 16th May to 5th June; Spu...
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Monthly marathon

01 July 1996
Comments Other That rock-perching bird (plate 118) was named as Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta (68%), Rock Pipit A. petrosus (29%) and also Buff-bellied Pipit A. rubescens, Fieldfare Turdus pilaris, Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis and Cinereous Bunting Emberiz...
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News and comment

01 July 1996
Comments News and comment We have commented in the past (Brit. Birds 88: 488) upon the delays associated with the production of a new British Red Data List for birds. Now we have Birds of Conservation Concern in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, which saw the...
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Announcements

01 July 1996
Comments Editorials 'Rare Birds Day by Day': EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL OFFER Using the Rarities Committee database, a new T & A D Poyser book. Rare Birds Day by Day by Steve Dudley, Pete Fraser, Tim Benton & John Ryan, sets records out in calendar fashion, rather than spe...
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Reviews

01 July 1996
Comments Reviews The Complete Garden Bird Book: how to identify and attract birds to your garden. By Mark Golley, Stephen Moss & David Daly, New Holland, London, 1996. 176 pages; 500 illustrations, ISBN 1-85368-581-X. Paperback £9.99. The only thing wrong with thi...
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Mystery photographs

01 July 1996
Comments Main paper This is obviously a diurnal raptor, with the give-away short neck, long tail and broad wings which will cause other birds to raise the alarm and bring it to our attention. The wings are too broad and rounded at the tips for it to be a falcon and i...
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Looking Back

01 July 1996
Comments Other One hundred and fifty years ago: 'On the occurrence of the Australian Spine-tailed Swallow [Whitethroated Needletail Swift Hirundapus caudacutus] in England. It was shot about 9 p.m. on the 8th of this month [July 1846] by a farmer's son, named Peter C...
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Letters

01 July 1996
Comments Letters Conservationists are considering a growing list of species for reintroduction into the United Kingdom. Whether this is 'a wise conservation measure' or 'a sensible use of conservation funds' has recently been queried by Scott & Dickson (1996). Thei...
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Notes

01 July 1996
Comments Notes At about 16.00 GMT on 16th February 1992, near West Bagborough, Taunton, Somerset, I saw a Song Thrush Turdus philomelos digging with its bill into a hedge-bank in a field; the thrush pulled out several root fragments of Lords-and-Ladies Arum maculatum...
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Bird photograph of the year

01 July 1996
Comments Main paper BIRD PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YEAR. 1996, its nineteenth year, and for the second year in succession, this competition was again sponsored by Canon (UK) Ltd. It is remarkable that, year after year, we continue to see the same photographers reaching the short-...
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