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Report on Rare Birds in Great Britain in 1983

01 November 1984 Comments Main paper This is our twenty-sixth report. For the second year, the work of the Rarities Committee was supported by the very welcome sponsorship of Zeiss West Germany. This financial assistance is greatly appreciated; it enables us to cope with the publication o...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1982

01 November 1983 Comments Main paper This is the twenty-fifth report of the Rarities Committee. Excluding Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea, about 880 records have been accepted for 1982, an acceptance rate of 86%. About 100 records for 1982 are still under consideration, as well as ...

Letters

01 August 1983 Comments Letters The origin of 'twitcher'. Richard Porter (Brit. Birds 75: 537) has traced 'twitcher' back to 1968, but what were 'people who chase rare birds' called before that? My recollection is that before the Second World War they were known as 'pot-hunters', and...

Identification pitfalls and assessment problems. 3. White Stork

01 March 1983 Comments Main paper Whit e Stork Ciconia ciconia. Although it may seem puzzling to those not involved in assessing reports of unusual species, unacceptable claims of White Stork are not infrequent. Besides the escape factor, which is quite high, the reasons fall i...

Notes

01 January 1983 Comments Notes Use by seabirds of human fishing activities. Jeffery Boswall (Brit. Birds 70: 79-81) commented that little has been published on the use made by seabirds of human fishing activities. A main factor adduced by the late James Fisher (1952, The Fulmar) to ...

Notes

01 August 1982 Comments Notes Nest-site provision experiment for Long-eared Owls To attempt to improve the breeding success of Long-eared Owls Asio otus, artificial nestsites were provided in an area where the owls were known to overwinter. The nests provided consisted of t...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1980

01 November 1981 Comments Main paper This is the twenty-third report of the Rarities Committee. Details of Committee membership and other matters relating to its work during the year have already been published {Brit. Birds 74: 314). So far (and excluding Cory's Shearwaters), 593 records ...

Notes

01 May 1981 Comments Notes Buzzard preying on Short-eared Owl At about 13.00 GMT on 26th October 1978,1 observed a Short-eared Owl Asio lammeus quartering the Chy-kembro Common, near Zennor, west Cornwall, at a height of l-2m. Suddenly, a Buzzard Buteo buteo flew up from...

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Letters

01 July 1978 Comments Letters Diving methods of Great Northern and Black-throated Divers On inland waters, I have noticed that Great Northern Divers Gavia immer always slither under slowly when diving, whereas Black-throated G. arctica jump upwards slightly before they dive...