Recent reports

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers February 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. There were three surprises in an otherwise uneventful month. An unidentified albatross Diomedeasp was repor...
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News and comment

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment N e w National Nature Reserve in Suffolk Walberswick, on the Suffolk coast, is well known to ornithologists chiefly because of Westwood Marshes, one of the largest reed-beds in Britain, created in 1940 when former grazing land was flooded as part of the c...
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Reviews

13 March 2014
Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of Cyprus and Migrants of the Middle East. By David A. Bannerman and W. Mary Bannerman. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1971. 237 pages; 27 colour plates; one fold-out map. £3.00. A Check-list of the Birds of Cyprus. By P. F. Stewa...
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Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Partridge plunging into water At about midday on 9th February 1972, we witnessed a remarkable piece of behaviour by a Partridge Perdix perdix at Fairham Brook, a tributary of the Trent at Clifton, Nottingham. At the point where this occurred the brook flo...
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Rarities committee news

01 January 2008
Comments News and comment Although it is more than two years since Canada Goose was split into two species, Greater Branta canadensis and Lesser Canada Goose B. hutchinsii, neither species is currently on category A of the British List. Both species apparently...
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