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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

Recent reports

01 June 2001 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers the period end April to early June 2001. ...

Reviews

01 June 2001 Comments Reviews Every time I see a new volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World I continue to be amazed at both its high standard and the fact that delivery is just about on time. When the first volume was published, in 1992, the schedule was to publish a volu...

British Birds – June 2001

01 June 2001 Comments Latest issues ...

The taxonomic status of Lesser Redpoll

01 June 2001 Comments Main paper Lesser Redpoll Carduelis cabaret has until recently been widely regarded as a subspecies of Common Redpoll C.flammea. In the past, it was geographically isolated from other redpolls during the breeding season, but expansion of its range s...

Common Tern ageing

01 June 2001 Comments Main paper Large numbers of Common Terns Sterna hirundo of known age were studied during the breeding season at Seaforth Nature Reserve, Liverpool, Merseyside. Detailed observations of key plumage and bare-part features were recorded, and compared with pub...

Greenish Warbler, 'Two-barred Greenish Warbler', and the speciation process

01 June 2001 Comments Main paper This Taxonomic Research Update draws birdwatchers' attention to the work of Irwin et at. (2001) on Greenish Warblers Phylloscopus trochiloides..Their research shows that two subspecies, P. t. viridanus and P. t. plumbeitarsus, ...

Two-barred Greenish Warbler on Scilly

01 June 2001 Comments Main paper ...

Looking Back

01 June 2001 Comments Other [From 'On Some New British Birds', by H. F.Witherby] 'THE PADDY-FIELD WARBLER. ...

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