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01 November 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 15th September to 12th October 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Rostellan (Co. Cork), 9th-12fh Oct...

Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1996

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Notes

01 November 1997 Comments Notes ...

'The Chalice petrel'

01 November 1997 Comments Letters ...

Mystery photographs

01 March 1977 Comments Main paper The set of the body, the length of the folded wings and tail, the small head and the clear supercilium may at first suggest that this wader (plate 11 on page 73) is a sandpiper of the genus Tringa. The back pattern, however, and also the size and shape...

Personalities. 3. Richard Porter

01 March 1977 Comments Main paper ! first met Richard Porter at Dungeness in 1958, on a Junior Bird Recorders' Club ringing course. He was small, very enthusiastic and had a crewcut. The crewcut went, but he is still small and even more enthusiastic. Richard was born in London in 1943,...

King Eider studies

01 March 1977 Comments Main paper The King Eider breeds on tundra, arriving at the nesting grounds as the ice begins to melt. Where its winter range overlaps with that of the Eider, mixed pairing may occur, resulting in occasional hybrids. These studies were made in Canada and Iceland&...

Effects of Great Skuas on Arctic Skuas in Shetland

01 March 1977 Comments Main paper Great Skuas, which have increased in numbers in Shetland, kill both adult and young Arctic Skuas. How has this predation affected Shetland's Arctic Skua colonies, and how will they fare in the future? The Great Skua or Bonxie Stercorarius...

Cetti's Warblers in east Kent in 1975

01 March 1977 Comments Main paper The colonisation of Britain by Cetti's Warblers has been one of the major events of the decade. There were no records in east Kent until 1971, yet by 1975 this was probably the third commonest warbler in parts of the Stour Valley The resu...

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