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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Recent reports

01 February 1992 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 20th December 1991 to 16th January 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Three, Upper Tamar Lake, Bude (Cornwall), 11th-13th January; two, 14th January. Lesser Sca...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1992 Comments Other The back view of November's small roosting wader (Brit. Birds 84: plate 278) was identified as belonging to: Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis (22%) Little Stint C. minuta (17%) Dunlin C. alpina (14%) Semipalmated Sandpiper C. pusilla (12%) Sanderli...
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News and comment

01 February 1992 Comments News and comment Tragedy in Croatia As this is written, in November 1991, there are some hopeful signs of a ceasefire in Yugoslavia. Who knows what the situation will be by the time you read this? In October, we received a poignant and emotional letter from the staff o...
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