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01 January 2010 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early November to early December 2009. Headlines During a very stormy period, it was birds at sea that caught the eye most, with the best being a Fregetta storm-petrel in the Severn estuary, a Pacific Diver nearby...

Reviews

01 January 2010 Comments Reviews By Paul Mason and Jake Allsop Poyser, 2009 Hbk, 280pp, many photographs, vignettes and tables ISBN 978-0-7136-7683-9 Subbuteo code M20081 £45.00 BB Bookshop price £36.00 This is the latest in the long-running and gener- ally excellent series ...

Letters

01 January 2010 Comments Letters In 2007, I was surprised to read (in Flood & Thomas 2007, p. 418) that I had seen a dark- rumped Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus near South Georgia, when what I saw was a bird with markings resembling those of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma le...

Social behaviour of the Egyptian Vulture

01 January 2010 Comments Main paper During a visit to Socotra, Yemen, in autumn 2008, we observed two social interactions of Egyptian Vultures Neophron percnopterus that appear not to have been described previously. This Globally Endangered species has prob- ably its highest world concentra...

Winter roosting behaviour of Hen Harriers in northern England

01 January 2010 Comments Main paper This article presents some observations on the winter roosting behaviour of Hen Har- riers Circus cyaneus in northern England during the winters of 2006/07 and 2007/08. The 7-km2 study area of low-lying hills (100-235 m asl) is a mixture of bog, heath, co...

Glaucous-winged Gull in Gloucestershire: new to Britain

01 January 2010 Comments Open Access Abstract During a visit to record colour-ringed gulls at Gloucester Landfill Site, near Hempsted, Gloucestershire, on 15th December 2006, an unfamiliar gull was discovered. Photographs suggested that it most closely resembled Glaucous- winged Gull Laru...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2007

01 January 2010 Comments Open Access With the publication of this, its thirty-fourth report, the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP) has been compiling and archiving information on rare breeding birds for 35 years. This report presents details of the status of the rarest breeding birds in th...

News & Comment

01 January 2010 Comments News and comment ...

Monthly Marathon

01 February 1996 Comments Other With Christmas and New Year postal delays still affecting incoming mail from overseas, even in mid January, we are extending the deadline for receipt of entries for the fourth stage of the current Marathon (December's plate 221). So far, seven species ...

Looking Back

01 February 1996 Comments Other Fifty years ago, a Note reported on: 'COMMON GULLS NESTING ON BIRCH TREES. In June, 1945, during a period of leave spent on Upper Deeside (Aberdeenshire), I noted on several occasions Common Gulls (Larus c. canus), perching on trees near the...

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