European News

01 February 1999 Comments Main paper This six-monthly compilation, inaugurated 22 years ago (Brit. Birds 70: 218), provides the only reliable continent-wide summary of important occurrences, ranging from changes in breeding or wintering distributions to irruptions, nationally rare birds a...
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Editorial: Britain & Ireland

01 February 1999 Comments Main paper Should Britain and Ireland be regarded as one coherent unit or two, for the purposes of biological recording? Ireland is quite distinct from Britain. It is an island (with many associated smaller islands and islets), so is easily defined. Quite rightly...
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Letters

01 February 1999 Comments Letters Although there have been many letters and papers in recent ornithological publications on the status of the Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea in Great Britain, often with reference to the big influx into northwest Europe in 1892, all have missed what c...
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