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01 March 1995 Comments Letters I was fascinated to read the reference, in the item on 'Identification by taste', to my great-grandfather, John Cordeaux (Brit. Birds 87: 447). I looked up his last publication, a revised list of British Birds belonging to the Humber District (1899), a...

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01 November 1993 Comments Letters Red-crested Pochard hybrids. The occurrence of hybrids involving Red-crested Pochards Netta rufina may not be so unusual as is suggested by A. H. J. Harrop's note (Brit. Birds 86: 130). A. P. Gray (1958) recorded hybrids with 11 species of the genus An...

From the Rarities Committee's files: Records not accepted

01 November 1993 Comments Main paper Records not accepted At the end of each annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain' there is a list of records not accepted. Observers, especially those who have submitted records which have appeared under this heading, occasionally express an inter...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1992

01 October 1993 Comments Main paper This is the Rarities Committee's thirty-fifth annual report, and the Committee wishes to express its sincere appreciation of the eleventh consecutive year of sponsorship of its work by Carl Zfiss (Oberkochen) Ltd. Rarities Committee membership is liste...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1991

01 October 1992 Comments Main paper This is the thirty-fourth annual report of the Rarities Committee, and with its publication, Carl Zeiss--Germany has reached the tenth anniversary of sponsorship of the Committee's work. To celebrate a decade of this much appreciated co-operation, an a...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1990

01 November 1991 Comments Main paper Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1990. This is the thirty-third annual report of the Rarities Committee, and for the ninth consecutive year Carl Zeiss-Germany has sponsored the Committee's work. We are most appreciative of this financial assist...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1988

01 November 1989 Comments Main paper This is the thirty-first annual report of the Rarities Committee, and it is the seventh consecutive year in which ZEISS West Germany has sponsored the Committee's work. We are extremely appreciative of this support, which enables us to continue to proc...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1985

01 November 1986 Comments Main paper This is our twenty-eighth annual report. ZEISS West Germany has again sponsored the work of the Rarities Committee. This continued financial support is most welcome, enabling the Committee to cope much more effectively with the processing and publicati...

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01 April 1986 Comments Letters Escapes? Some years ago, Derek Goodwin and the late Derrick England published some long comments on the problem for birdwatchers of escaped cage birds (Brit. Birds49: 339-349; 67: 177-197). Since those papers, a new generation of birders has appeared, ...

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01 March 1986 Comments Letters 'Pishing' technique. For many years, I have been delighting and often surprising overseas birders visiting North America by enticing numbers of passerines and other landbirds out of dense cover and into view by 'pishing'. Although the technique varies ...

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From the Rarities Committee's files: Records not accepted

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1992

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1988

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1985

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