Recent reports

01 February 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 3rd-15th January 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Two long-stayers, on Tresco (Scilly) and North Slob (...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1995
Comments Other The ninth stage (Brit. Birds 87: plate 178) was correctly identified as a Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus by everyone except a handful of competitors (Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli and Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus were the only ot...
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News and comment

01 February 1995
Comments News and comment Although the Chinese say they acquired it from Eastern Europe, it appears that a particularly virulent virus that affects Old World Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus spread into Europe from China in about 1984. Within ten years it had probably killed over ...
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