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01 October 2004 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid August to mid September 2004. Canvasback Aythya valisineria Private site (Kent), 15th August. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca Chew Valley Lake (Somerset), 20th August to 1st September. Zino's/Fea's Petrel Pterod...

News and Comment

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Crake Crex crex is a familiar, if depressing, story. Mechanical mowing and the early harvesting of crops, before the end of the breeding season, have had a catastrophic effect on Corn Crakes in Britain and across much of western Eu...

Conservation research news

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment One of the assumptions that scientists often make about territorial birds is that individuals will choose the best breeding sites available. Consequently, when populations are small, every individual occupies a high-quality site but, as populations grow, ...

The Carl Zeiss Award 2004

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper One of the difficulties for the judging panel of the Carl Zeiss Award, for photographs of rarities assessed by the BBRC during the preceding year, is that we have to think of something new to say in our report each year. This year it was easy, in fact it ...

AudouinÕs Gull: new to Britain

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A second-summer Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii was found at Dungeness, Kent, on 5th May 2003. It lingered in the area for the remainder of the day, commuting between the shore and nearby pools on the RSPB reserve. It was present again the followi...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2002

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper This is the thirtieth annual report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, which presents details of the status of Britain's rarest breeding birds for the year 2002. The totals are generally set out by county or region, occasionally by country; most actual loc...

XIV International Ornithological Congress: Preliminary Announcement

01 May 1955 Comments Editorials It was decided at the close of the XIII International Ornithological Congress at Ithaca, New York, that the next Congress would be held in Great Britain in 1966, with Dr. David Lack as President. At a meeting of the British members of the International Or...

News and comments

01 May 1955 Comments News and comment Prize-winning films.--The B.B.C. and the Council for Nature recently announced the results of their jointly sponsored natural history film competition for amateurs. The joint winners of the £700 prize in the main class for a film suitable for televi...

Reviews

01 May 1955 Comments Reviews The Migrations of Birds. By Jean Dorst. Translated from the French by Constance D . Sherman. Heinemann, London, 1962. x i v + 4 7 6 pages; 131 figures in the text. 50s. The amateur migration enthusiast often longs for a comprehensive, readable book in Eng...

Notes

01 May 1955 Comments Notes Exceptional passage of Cory's Shearwaters off Co. Cork.--During the late afternoon of 10th August 1962 a routine sea-watch from a hundred feet above sea level at Pointanbullig, one of the southern points of Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, revealed an unusual...

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