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01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...

Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

01 November 2003 Comments Main paper This is the forty-fifth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of the records which have been assessed by BBRC for the year 2002, along with additional, outstanding records from previous years. To enhance the over...

British Birds – November 2003

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Grey-cheeked and Bicknell's Thrushes: taxonomy, identification and the British and Irish records

01 January 1996 Comments Main paper The BOU Records Committee has recently accepted the taxonomic split of the mainly Nearctic Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus into two species: a restricted Grey-cheeked Thrush comprising the races minimus and aliciae and the monotypic Bicknell's Thr...

Long-toed Stint in Cornwall: the first record for the Western Palearctic

01 January 1996 Comments Open Access ABSTRACT A wader at Marazion Marsh, Cornwall, on 7th and 8th June 1970, originally identified as a Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla, has now been accepted as a Long-toed Stint C. subminuta, the first record of this species in the Western Palearctic. ...

Monthly Marathon

01 January 1996 Comments Other The answers sent in for the first three hurdles can now be revealed. September's dozing wader (Brit. Birds 88: plate 126) was named as White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (36%), Western Sandpiper C. mauri (24%), Little Stint C. minuta (23%), Se...

Rarities Committee News And Announcements

01 January 1996 Comments Editorials For the past 19 years, the British Birds Rarities Committee has, for each rare species recorded during the year, shown (a) the total number of individuals recorded up to the year 1957, (b) the total number of individuals recorded during the period from...

Recent reports

01 January 1996 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 13th November to 17th December 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Immature, perhaps first-winter...

News And Comment

01 January 1996 Comments News and comment After being held hostage for nearly four months by the guerilla group La Cordinadora de la Guerilla 'Simon Bolivar', BB subscriber Timothy Cowley was rescued on 8th December by a special antikidnapping unit of the Colombian police. Welcome back Tim! Ev...

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