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01 November 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 15th September to 12th October 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Rostellan (Co. Cork), 9th-12fh Oct...

Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1996

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01 November 1997 Comments Notes ...

'The Chalice petrel'

01 November 1997 Comments Letters ...

Grey Wagtail Passage in Britain in 1956-60

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper cinerea recorded at various of the coastal bird observatories in September 1959 (Williamson 1959), which focused attention on this species, requests for information were published in British Birds (53: 140 and 54: 131) and News for Naturalists (2: 15). Th...

Birds in Ireland during 1960-62

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper annual reports of the Rarities Committee (see Brit. Birds, 54: 174). The advantages of having all records of rarities within these islands considered by one body and collected together into one report are obvious, and it is very much to be hoped that a ha...

Notes

01 January 1964 Comments Notes Fulmar incubating eggs of Herring Gull with its own.--On 27th May 1963 I was walking along a cliff top four miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, when I surprised a Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis off its nest. As it flew, a brown egg rolled out and smashed on t...

Herd Composition and Dispersion in The Whooper Swan

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper Park, Banffshire, it became apparent that, within the herd that gathered during the autumn passage, swans in family parties (i.e. adults accompanied by young birds) were less wary and fed more widely spread out along the narrow part of the loch than swans...

British Bird-Photographers I. Seton Gordon

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper W I T H T H I S ISSUE we start a new series of plates devoted to the work of individual bird-photographers. At irregular intervals, three or four times a year, we propose to publish a selection of the best photographs by the well known and the not so well...

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Recent reports

Recent BBRC Decisions

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1996

Notes

'The Chalice petrel'

Grey Wagtail Passage in Britain in 1956-60

Birds in Ireland during 1960-62

Notes

Herd Composition and Dispersion in The Whooper Swan

British Bird-Photographers I. Seton Gordon

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