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October 2019 – contents

01 October 2019 Comments Latest issues The BBRC annual report needs little introduction to regular readers, since it is now 60 years since our national rarities committee was first established. Andy Stoddart looks back over the first six decades in his ‘BBRC birthday’ BB eye on p...

September 2019 – contents

01 September 2019 Comments Latest issues Two of the main articles in this issue showcase studies in which tracking has played an important part, which is a recurring theme in BB editorial content these days. The article on Roseate Terns features the results of direct observations (and ...

August 2019 – contents

01 August 2019 Comments Latest issues 422 BB eye Ian Carter 427 News and comment Adrian Pitches 431 The migrations of British Common Sandpipers Ron Summers, Brian Bates, Louise d...

Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters D o some Wallcreepers migrate? Recent letters by David Elias, H. G. Alexander and Guy Mountfort on the movements of the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria referred respectively to observations in Cyprus (Brit. Birds, 63: 393-394) and the Indo-Pakistan subc...

A review of the 1950–57 British rarities

01 September 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A review of records of British rarities in the eight years from 1950 to 1957 has been carried out by a subcommittee of the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC). In total, 126 records of 67 of the rarest species and species pairs were reasse...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper This is the second part of this, the ninth, annual Scarce Migrants report, which covers the passerine species from Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla to Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla. Part 1 of the report, which dealt with non-passerines, has ...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 1: American Wigeon to Wryneck

01 February 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT This report documents the changing fortunes of those scarce migrants recorded in Britain in 2003. Favourable conditions brought record numbers of Pectoral Sandpipers Calidris melanotos and the largest influx of Yellow...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2004

01 December 2005 Comments Main paper This is the forty-seventh annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2004, along with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. Some have questioned the c...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2002, Part 2: American Wigeon to Ring-billed Gull

01 February 2005 Comments Main paper This is the second part of this eighth annual report, which discusses the remaining nonpasserine species, from American Wigeon Anas americana to Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis. Part 1 of the report, which covered European Bee-eater Merops apiaster...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2002 Part 1: European Bee-eater to Little Bunting

01 December 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT This report documents the changing fortunes of those scarce migrant species reaching Britain in 2002.The year 2002 was the best year on record for Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria and Rose-coloured Starling Sturnus roseus, the latter having recently...

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October 2019 – contents

September 2019 – contents

August 2019 – contents

Letters

A review of the 1950–57 British rarities

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 1: American Wigeon to Wryneck

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2004

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2002, Part 2: American Wigeon to Ring-billed Gull

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2002 Part 1: European Bee-eater to Little Bunting

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