Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...
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Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...
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Recent reports

01 April 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 10th February to 16th March 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Flying over Portland Bill (Dorset), the...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 April 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Monthly Marathon

01 April 1997 Comments Other December's scaly-plumaged bird was obviously a swift Apus, and most entrants (80%) identified it as a Common Swift A. apus; other suggestions were Pallid Swift A. pallidus (16%), Pacific Swift A. pacificus (3%) and White-rumped Swift A. caffer (1%). It...
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Looking Back

01 April 1997 Comments Other One hundred and fifty years ago: 'Occurrence of the Scops Eared Owl at the Scilly Islands.--I received yesterday [12th April 1847] from Mr. James, the steward of the lord-proprietor of the Scilly Islands, a very good specimen of the scops owl. It was r...
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Letters

01 April 1997 Comments Letters A great deal has been written concerning the fate of the Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis in Britain and Ireland (e.g. Brit. Birds 86: 338; 87: 394-395, 494; 88: 243-244). While I have no wish to add any weight to the emotive rhetoric which has sometimes ...
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