Recent reports

01 May 2011
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early March to early April 2011. Headlines The beginning of April saw an impressive arrival of spring overshoots, with a raft of sightings of Purple Herons and Black Storks, three Night Herons, a Red-footed Falc...
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News and comment

01 May 2011
Comments News and comment The rehabilitation of thousands of oiled penguins following the wreck of the MS Oliva on Nightin- gale Island in the Tristan group continues. It is feared that up to 10,000 Northern Rockhopper Penguins Eudyptes moseleyi - one of the most threatened pen...
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Top Birding Sites of Europe

01 May 2011
Comments Reviews By Dominic Couzens New Holland, 2011 Hbk, 192pp, CD with vocalisations of 60 species ISBN 978-1-84773-767-0 Subbuteo code M20836 £22.99 BB Bookshop price £20.50 Following on from his 2008 title Top 100 Birding Sites of the World, Dominic Couz...
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Notes

01 May 2011
Comments Notes European Storm-petrel Hydrobates pelagicus is separated from Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus by several key features (flight behaviour, structure, plumage) but field guides typically emphasise its white underwing-covert panels. These are form...
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Letters

01 May 2011
Comments Letters Cypriots have been catching birds for at least half a millennium (Locke 1904), and for over a century the epicentre of this trade has been known to lie in the southeast of the island. The Cypriots are now trying to control it, joined by the RAF at Akro...
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Recent reports

01 December 1976
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers September and the first part of October. Except when otherwise stated, all dates refer to September. SEABIRDS The large numbers of shearwaters present off...
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Spring summary

01 December 1976
Comments News and comment We received little information on sea-passage from coastal stations, but the following movements may be of interest. At Portland a total of 3,194 Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus passed between 2nd and 12th May. Figures for Common Scoters Melanitta n...
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News and Comment

01 December 1976
Comments News and comment Skokholm Bird Observatory to close The sad news has reached me that Skokholm Bird Observatory, Dyfed, is to close. The observatory was the first to be established in Britain, in 1937, by R. M. Lockley, whose work on the Manx Shearwater was one ...
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Request for assistance

01 December 1976
Comments Editorials Bird Photograph o ftheYear  Readers are reminded that the closing date for receipt of entries for this competition (black-and-white prints or colour transparencies) is 5th January 1977. Interest and originality, as well as technical excell...
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