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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The only British wintering grounds for Bean Geese Anser fabalis of the western race fabalis to have been permanently occupied for many years lie in the Yare Valley, east Norfolk. The discovery of some individuals carrying coded ...

World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar...

Mystery photographs

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Notes

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Letters

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Purple Sandpipers breeding in Scotland

01 December 1983 Comments Main paper Purple Sandpipers Calidris maritima were first recorded breeding in Scotland in 1978. Brief details of that event and subsequent breeding at the same locality have appeared in the annual Scottish Bird Reports and in the reports of the Rare Breeding Bir...

Studies of west Palearctic birds. 186. Bearded Tit

01 December 1983 Comments Main paper The Bearded Tit (as I shall insist on calling it) Panurus biarmicus is a rather peculiar bird. Taxonomically, there is nothing else like it. It even has a newly described species of feather mite not yet known from any other bird (Cerny 1978). It is con...

Requests

01 December 1983 Comments Editorials Winter Atlas The BTO/IWC Winter Atlas is now in its third and final year of fieldwork. Counts of birds are wanted from all areas, but help is especially needed in parts of northwest Scotland, southwest England and Ireland. If you are able to help, plea...

Announcements

01 December 1983 Comments Editorials Binding your BBs We should like to remind readers that special binders to hold a full year's issues can be purchased by post for £4.30 (overseas postage 35p extra) from Easibind, 42 Hoxton Square, London Nl 6NS. Standard book-binding of the year's iss...

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