Recent reports

01 May 1996 Comments News and comment White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Blyth Estuary (Northumberland), 20th March to 8th April. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis Tittenhanger Gravel-pits (Hertfordshire), 7th-llth April. Briinnich's Guillemot Uria lomvia Ardnamurchan Peninsula (Highland), 27th Ma...
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News and comment

01 May 1996 Comments News and comment Whatever your views may be on the ethics of releasing birds for shooting, it is an extremely widespread practice that has implications for the avifauna of widely dispersed geographical areas. We have heard it claimed that, with the UK population of Gre...
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Letters

01 May 1996 Comments Letters In October 'News and comment' (Brit. Birds 88: 489), Shelley Hinsley's letter in the New Scientist about feeding peanuts in the summer was quoted. Readers may feel that this reference indicated the wholesale death of nestling tits Parus nationwide thro...
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Recent Reports

01 June 1955 Comments News and comment Normally April and May provide us with quite a scattering of vagrants from southern and south-eastern Europe, but this year such wanderers seem to have been rather few. There were two reports of a Little Egret (Egretta gar^etta) on St. Mary's (Isles of Sc...
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