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01 January 2006 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early October to early December 2005. ...

BBRC says goodbye to birders' favourites

01 January 2006 Comments Editorials The number of records that the BBRC assesses has grown rapidly, while at the same time some observers are becoming less willing to submit descriptions for species that they feel are `less' rare. Following a consultation with County Recorders and record...

News and Comment

01 January 2006 Comments News and comment As 2005 drew to a close, the virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza was reported in poultry in the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine. This was the fourth country in Europe to report bird flu, following outbreaks in October in Romania (dead Mute Swans Cygnus...

Letters

01 January 2006 Comments Letters I refer to Steve Percival's article on this subject (Percival 2005). By the end of 2004, 16,534 wind turbines were installed in Germany, which provides enormous scope for research on the potential impacts to bird populations. Most of this research has ...

Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom

01 January 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In 1997, the Avian Population Estimates Panel (APEP) published its first collation of British and UK bird population estimates (Stone et al. 1997). This paper provides the first review of those estimates, drawing on information available prior...

The Northern Bullfinch invasion of autumn 2004

01 January 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A record invasion of `Northern Bullfinches' Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula occurred in Britain in autumn 2004. It also affected many other parts of Europe with birds being recorded as far afield as Iceland, Ireland, Italy and Bulgaria. As...

British Birds – January 2006

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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...

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...

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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Recent reports

BBRC says goodbye to birders' favourites

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Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom

The Northern Bullfinch invasion of autumn 2004

British Birds – January 2006

Recent reports

Recent BBRC Decisions

Monthly Marathon

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