Recent reports

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The previous summary {Brit. Birds, 65: 267-268) covered most of the rarities and scarce migrants in March. Here we deal with the departure of certain winter visitors and the arrival of spring ...
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News and comment

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment Wildfowl Trust expansion The Wildfowl Trust has announced plans for a major refuge and waterfowl collection in Lancashire. The chosen site is that of the former Martin Mere, between Southport and Burscough Bridge, which was drained for agriculture in the ...
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Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Danish White Storks in south-west England I was very interested in J. B. Bottomley's article on the wanderings of three young White Storks Ciconia ciconia from FrØstrup, Denmark, in September 1971 (Brit. Birds, 65: 4-5, plates 1-3). During the summ...
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Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Moorhen completely submerging for more than a minute On 16 th January 1972 James Parkin and I were walking along the bank of the River Eden near Musgrave, Westmorland, when we saw a Moorhen Gallinula chloropus disappear into a pool about 2 5 metres away. ...
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Recent reports

01 June 1997
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 14th April to 11th May 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Fetlar (Shetland), 26th April; Dungeness (Kent), 1st...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 June 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 June 1997
Comments Other April's warbler (plate 33) was photographed in an exotic location (in Portugal, by Dr Kevin Carlson, in June 1990) and a few competitors gambled on Spectacled Sylvia conspicillata, Subalpine S. cantillans, Desert S. nana or Barred S. nisoria, but, by a...
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