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01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...

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01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

01 November 2003 Comments Main paper This is the forty-fifth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of the records which have been assessed by BBRC for the year 2002, along with additional, outstanding records from previous years. To enhance the over...

British Birds – November 2003

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A Black-headed Gull showing both albinism and melanism

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01 September 1962 Comments Reviews Identification for Ringers: 2. T h e Genus Phylloscopus. By Kenneth Williamson. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, 1962. 86 pages; 1 colour and 4 monochrome plates. 7s. There are now about a thousand ringers in Britain. Many of these are trained and l...

Notes

01 September 1962 Comments Notes Shelduck moulting in breeding area.--On 9th July 1961, in an area of extensive fresh grazing marshes in north Kent, I noticed an adult male Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) swimming along the edge of a large fleet. The knob on its bill had regressed, but it was...

Studies of less familiar birds 119. Great Grey Owl

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper mbulosd) by Oscar Moberg were published in British Birds in 1956 (49: plates 1-3), but the remarkable flight pictures by Hilding Mickelsson and Goran Hansson n o w reproduced o n plates 60 and 61 more than justify the species being included in this series...

Radar films of migration over eastern England

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper Research Laboratories of Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Co. Ltd., at Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, have taken films of a radar display by time-lapse photography and many of these provide a clear record of bird migration; some were shown at the British O...

Behaviour of Pied Flycatchers during an eclipse of the sun

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper during eclipses of the sun, when light intensities may be lower than those which inhibit feeding and other regular activities on normal evenings. This short paper therefore sets out to record some observations which my wife and I made on a pair of Pied Fl...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

British Birds – November 2003

A Black-headed Gull showing both albinism and melanism

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Studies of less familiar birds 119. Great Grey Owl

Radar films of migration over eastern England

Behaviour of Pied Flycatchers during an eclipse of the sun

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