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01 October 2003 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early August to early September 2003. ...

Monthly marathon

01 October 2003 Comments Other At one time or another, we have all been faced with unsatisfactory, and often brief, rear-end views of an apparently unfamiliar bird disappearing into cover. Most will be common birds seen badly, but occasionally the views suggest that something more e...

Reviews

01 October 2003 Comments Reviews A BIRDER'S GUIDE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS By Gábor Michl. Gavia Science, Budapest, 2003. 291 pages; 48 illustrations. ISBN 963-210-172-3. Hardback, £32.99. ...

News and Comment

01 October 2003 Comments News and comment BirdLife International has reported that a new colony of Europe's rarest breeding bird, Madeira Petrel Pterodroma madeira (for which the alternative names of Zino's Petrel or Freira are also used), has been found in the central mountains of Madeira. Th...

Max Nicholson CVO CB

01 October 2003 Comments Obituaries Edward Max Nicholson, born on 12th July 1904 in Ireland and known to all simply as Max, died on 26th April 2003. One of the most influential conservationists of the twentieth century, Max was an exceptional ornithologist too. He founded the BTO in 1933...

Letters

01 October 2003 Comments Letters In recent years, I have found it increasingly difficult to separate Marsh Tits Parus palustris from Willow Tits P. montanus. I do not believe, as some might suggest, that this is related to advancing years or increasing deafness! Nor do I think that it...

Identification of Daurian Jackdaw

01 October 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Daurian Jackdaw Corvus dauuricus has three distinct age-related plumages: both juveniles and adults are pied, but first-years have largely black plumage. Some authorities state that adults can occur in two plumage morphs, pied and all...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2001

01 October 2003 Comments Main paper This is the twenty-ninth annual report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, which presents details of the status of Britain's rarest breeding birds for the year 2001. The majority of the totals are set out by county, region or, occasionally, country, with...

British Birds – October 2003

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News and comment

01 February 1967 Comments News and comment T h e National Cage Birds Show.--As usual, the National Cage Birds Show at London's Olympia from 8th to ioth December 1966 was dominated by canaries and budgerigars, and there seemed to be even fewer foreign species of special interest to the British fiel...

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