Monthly marathon

01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Recent reports

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...
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News and comment

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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News and comment

01 August 1967 Comments News and comment Wildfowl counts in Northern Ireland.--One of the first tasks to be tackled by the Northern Ireland Ornithologists" Club when it was formed in October 1964 was the planning of a series of wildfowl counts in the Lough Neagh basin, along the lines of those o...
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Letters

01 August 1967 Comments Letters Red-headed Buntings in Britain and Ireland Sirs,--D. I. M. Wallace's recent review of 'Birds in Ireland during 1963-65' (Brit Birds, 60: 205-213) refers to the sixth and seventh Irish records of the Red-headed Bunting Emberi^a bruniceps in Co. Cork in Jun...
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Notes

01 August 1967 Comments Notes Hirundines taking winged insects from the surface of the sea.--With reference to another note of mine on Swallows Hirundo rustica taking winged insects from the surface of the sea off Tresco, Isles of Scilly, in September 1958 {Brit. Birds, 5 3: 200), I s...
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