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Mystery Photographs

01 April 1998 Comments Main paper "Mixed flocks of Dalmatian Pelicans Pelecanus crispus and White Pelicans P. onocrotalus do occur, but the two are most often seen separately, and a typical view is of a small party of one or the other species in flight overhead. Mystery photograph A, t...

Redhead in Nottinghamshire: new to Britain and Ireland

01 April 1998 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A male Redhead Aythya americana with Common Pochards A. ferina at Bleasby, Nottinghamshire, during 8th-27th March 1997 was the first record of this North American duck in Britain & Ireland.A chance conversation with Simon Roberts on Friday...

Letters

01 April 1998 Comments Letters 'News and comment' (Brit. Birds 90: 581) revealed birders' troubles with Back-packers' Syndrome. The cause--being overloaded with technical equipment--is peculiar to our hobby and is, therefore, a new condition. If we are to be welcomed into the group ...

Studies of West Palearctic birds 197. Tree Sparrow

01 April 1998 Comments Main paper The Tree Sparrow Passer montanus and the House Sparrow P. domestkus are the only two members of the genus Passer that breed in Britain & Ireland. They are an interesting pair of congeners: both have extensive distributions in the Palearctic and Ori...

Rarities Committee News and Announcements

01 April 1998 Comments Main paper Committee membership. Paul Harvey and Jimmy Steele were co-opted onto the BBRC in September 1997 to fill the vacancies created by the retirement of Rob Hume and the change in the voting status of the new Chairman, Dr Colin Bradshaw (Brit. Birds 90: 522...

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