News and Comment

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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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...
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Recent reports

01 July 1994
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 16th May to 19th June 1994 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis St Catherine's Point (Isle of Wight), 2nd May. Black Stork Ciconia nigra Near Byfleet (Surrey), 18th ...
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News and comment

01 July 1994
Comments News and comment IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED that campaigning works, this must be it. When, in spring 1993, the new President of Cyprus revoked his predecessor's antishooting legislation, Bill Oddie and Derek Moore, two well-known names with a long history of campaigning...
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Reviews

01 July 1994
Comments Reviews Identification Guide to European Non-Passerines. BTO Guide 24. By Kevin Baker. British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, 1993. 332 pages; 170 line-drawings. ISBN 0-903793-18-0. £15.00. This book has been designed for bird-ringers, but it is highly...
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Notes

01 July 1994
Comments Notes Great Cormorant 'playing' in up-currents, and reactions of birds to model sailplane. On 8th October 1990, at Watergate Bay, Cornwall, I was flying a radio-controlled model sailplane in orographic lift above die cliffs, where Eurasian Jackdaws Corvus mo...
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Bird photograph of the year

01 July 1994
Comments Main paper Take the best work of 1993 by the cream of Europe's bird-photographers, and you are sure to enjoy the show: but judging the best of the best becomes extraordinarily difficult. Such was the pleasure and the pain faced by photographic consultant, Don Smi...
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