Monthly marathon

01 November 1996
Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Recent reports

01 November 1996
Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...
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News and comment

01 November 1996
Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996
Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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Recent reports

01 October 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers July 1971, and all dates refer to that month unless otherwise stated. A wreck of sprats at Teesmouth (Co. Durham/Yorkshire) in the third week attracted thousands of gulls a...
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News and Comment

01 October 1971
Comments News and comment Puffins in peril This is the title of an article by Dr J. J. M. Flegg in a recent issue (no. 46) of BTO News, published by the British Trust for Ornithology. Dr Flegg, who has been studying the Puffin colonies on St Kilda for several years, has concluded ...
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Letters

01 October 1971
Comments Letters Guillemots in Perthshire The most interesting note by E. J. Wise on the occurrence of Guillemots Uria aalge on the upper Tay inland in central Scotland in the autumns of 1969 and 1970 {Brit. Birds, 64: 77) raises a number of points. First, it is of course...
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Reviews

01 October 1971
Comments Reviews Birds of Prey in the Field. By Roger Harkness and Colin Murdoch. Witherby, London, 1971. 208 p a g e s ; 61 black-and-white photographs; 44 pages of drawings. £2.25. Birds of prey present difficult problems in field identification and many birdwatch...
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