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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. ...

Reviews

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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Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard RichardsonAward'

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper For two of the judges, it was the twelfth meeting to pick the 'Bird Illustrator of die Year' and the occasion was still just as absorbing as the first. We have watched the standard of work rising over the years, although it is hardly surpris...

Obituary: Sir Hugh Elliott, Bt, OBE (1913-1989)

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper Sir Hugh Elliott, Bt, OBE (1913-1989). Once upon a time, back in the 1950s when I was still a discontented medical student frequenting the Bird Room at the British Museum (Natural History), I found a representative collection of birds of the inade...

Identification of Hume's Short-toed Lark

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper In February 1986, a Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris was seen and subsequently caught at Eilat, Israel: the first record for the Western Palearctic. Hume's Short-toed Lark breeds from eastern Iran through Afghanistan, northern Pakis...

Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1990 Comments Other 'CUCKOO' S METHOD OF DEPOSITING EGG. On May 19th, 1915,I visited an old friend of mine in Norfolk. He leads a very secluded life but is a keen observer of natural history and a man whose word one can trust implicitly. There are some ...

Monthly marathon

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper It was almost impossible to judge the size of that flying wader (plate 104), but very few people fell into the trap of overestimating its bulk. Entrants named it as: Sanderling Calidris alba (93%) Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola (5%). It was, indeed, ...

News and comment

01 July 1990 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Welsh Conference 1990 The third annual conference of the Welsh Ornithological Society was held in Aberystwyth on 7th April and attracted nearly a hundred participa...

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