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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 ...

The 'British Birds' best bird book of the year

01 October 1994 Comments Main paper For the benefit of those who may wish to acquire (or give as a present) just one of the many bird books published each year, British Birds selects annually its choice of the 'Best Bird Book of the Year' from those reviewed in the journal during the pre...

The ornithological year 1993

01 October 1994 Comments Main paper This report attempts to summarise the major bird movements and influxes of 1993, as well as rarity highlights. All the rarities noted here have been accepted by either the BBRC or the Irish Rare Birds Committee. Those records still pending are, therefo...

News and comment

01 October 1994 Comments News and comment LINDISFARNE NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE, situated on the North Northumberland coast and embracing part of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, was established in 1964. Managed by English Nature, it was designated a Special Protection Area in March 1992 under EC...

Letters

01 October 1994 Comments Letters Bannerman and the Black Oystercatcher. It is difficult not to sympathise with the sentiment in Bernard Zonfrillo's mourning of the Great Auk Pinguinus impennis, exterminated by man's hand on 3rd June 1844 (Brit. Birds 87: 269-270), but his blaming of t...

Red-billed Tropicbird in Suffolk

01 October 1994 Comments Main paper On 17th February 1993, following a report of bird carcases on the shoreline at Landguard Point, Suffolk, the area was surveyed by NO. A few emaciated Common Guillemots Uria aalge were found and, on part of the Harwich harbour shore inside the spit, the...

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