Rarities Committee news

01 September 2010
Comments News and comment Following the request in BB (p. 313) and elsewhere for candidates to replace our longest-serving member, John Sweeney, in June 2010, Chris McInerny was nominated by Bob McGowan and seconded by Ron Forrester. Consequently, there was an election to decide w...
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News and comment

01 September 2010
Comments News and comment Two out of five of the UK's natural World Heritage sites are in danger of being added to a blacklist because non-native rats and mice are killing and eating the unique bird species confined to them. At a UNESCO meeting in Brasilia in early August, the UK ...
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John Gooders (1937-2010)

01 September 2010
Comments Obituaries John Gooders, who did more than most to broaden the horizons of Britain's bird- watchers, died on 18th May 2010 after a long illness, aged 73. He was a prolific author and his books guided many of us in learning about birds. I first knew of John in 197...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1992
Comments Other It was a Ring-billed Gull, photographed in Lancashire in February 1991 by Malcolm Rains. Once again, all the leading competitors got the answer right, so Graham Catley, Roy Hargreaves, Hannu Jännes, Peter Lansdown, Pekka J. Nikander and Dave Nurney al...
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Reviews

01 December 1992
Comments Reviews An Atlas o f the Breeding Birds of Shropshire. Edited by Peter Deans, Jack Sankey, Leo Smith, John Tucker, Chris Whittles & Colin Wright. Shropshire Ornithological Society, Shrewsbury, 1992. 204 pages; 142 line-drawings; 140 maps. Paperback £...
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Mystery photographs

01 December 1992
Comments Main paper It is October in southwest Britain and anything can turn up. You are being bombarded by vagrants from all points of the compass when you come upon this unfamiliar bird in some poplars Populus (plate 267, repeated here in black-and-white). You real...
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