Recent reports

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...
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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...
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Swifts in sea-breeze fronts

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper G L I D E R P I L O T S often find themselves sharing rising currents of air with birds, sometimes to considerable heights. A source of upcurrents which has been found and used more extensively in recent years is the rising air at the sea-breeze front. Tw...
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Reviews

01 June 1967 Comments Reviews Animal Navigation. By R. M. Lockley. Pan Books, London, 1967. 205 pages; 25 text-figures. 6s. Ornithologists are apt to think of animal navigation as being about the spectacular homing journeys of birds. In this book the author interprets the term very br...
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Notes

01 June 1967 Comments Notes Barn Owl perching on man.--On 14th December 1966, at 3 p.m., I was digging a ditch on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' reserve at Leighton Moss, Lancashire, when I saw a Barn Owl Tjto alba hunting along the hedgerow. It soon dropped on to a ...
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