Recent reports

01 November 1993
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th September to 17th October 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. SemipaJmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus First-winter plover showing some diagnostic features of this species at Bally...
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1993
Comments Other No trap, it was a Little Gull, photographed by Axel Halley in Germany in October 1988 (SCORE 6). The first person to achieve a score of 500 will win a birding trip with SUNBIRD to Africa, Asia or North America.223. Sixth 'Monthly marathon', using new r...
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News and Comment

01 November 1993
Comments News and comment NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO, criticism of the Forestry Commission was almost a daily event. The design and, very often, the location of commercial plantations seemed to work against the best interests of birds and other wildlife, and various aspects of fores...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1993
Comments Main paper The fairly long neck, pot belly, short and slightly decurved bill, and scaly upperparts readily suggest that our mystery bird (plate 217 on page 566) is a Calidris wader, or perhaps a Ruff Philomachus pugnax. Discerning the size of a lone wader in the ...
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Announcements

01 November 1993
Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report. Entries are invited for the third annual award (see account of the first and second awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Britain ...
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Reviews

01 November 1993
Comments Reviews The Common Tern. By Rob Hume, Hamlyn, London, 1993. 127 pages; 20 colour plates; 4 colour illustrations; 27 line-drawings. ISBN 0-540-01266-1. Paperback £9.99. This second title in a series designed to be 'scientifically accurate but not overburd...
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Letters

01 November 1993
Comments Letters Red-crested Pochard hybrids. The occurrence of hybrids involving Red-crested Pochards Netta rufina may not be so unusual as is suggested by A. H. J. Harrop's note (Brit. Birds 86: 130). A. P. Gray (1958) recorded hybrids with 11 species of the genus An...
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Notes

01 November 1993
Comments Notes Prolonged song of Collared Dove. At Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, the 'coocoo-cuk' song of the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto is normally repeated in a series of up to five or seven phrases. I have noted it with up to 15 phrases. On 8th July 1993,1 coun...
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