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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Diary Dates

01 June 1997
Comments Editorials Society of Wildlife Artists' Annual Exhibition. (including display of winning entries in 'Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard Richardson Award' competitions). The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London swi. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission £2.00 (fr...
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European News

01 June 1997
Comments Main paper All records have been accepted by the relevant national rarities committee, unless marked by an asterisk (*). Records are included only if they have been sent by the official national representative, each of whom is listed at the end of this report, or...
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Bird Photograph of the Year

01 June 1997
Comments Main paper 1st Jens Eriksen (Sultanate of Oman): Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis (plate 51) 2nd Pekka Helo (Finland): Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis (plate 53) 3rd Bob Glover (Essex): Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus (plate 52) Junior (25 years and under)...
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Looking Back

01 June 1997
Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in June/July 1972: '. . . after 10th June, a total of probably several hundred [Common Crossbills Loxia curvirostra] being reported in many parts of Britain from Shetland to Lundy [Devon] by the end of the month . . . The largest...
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Letter

01 June 1997
Comments Letters A pair of unstreaked Acrocephalus warblers nested in Orkney in 1993 (Adam & Meek 1994; Ogilvie et al. 1996). Based on (1) comparison of measurements with Walinder et al. (1988), (2) the birds' general coloration and (3) the comparative frequency of...
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