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Product reports

01 April 1993 Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...

From the Rarities Committee's files: Separation of South Polar Skua from Great Skua

01 April 1993 Comments Main paper Separation of South Polar Skua from Great Skua. Some of the claims of South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki that have been submitted to the British Birds Rarities Committee contain certain misconceptions. These relate to both South Polar Skua and G...

Mystery photographs

01 April 1993 Comments Main paper When I first saw this photograph (plate 31, repeated here), it was at a distance, so all I could see was what looked like a silhouette of a raptor, which could be an Accipiter. It has pretty good wing shape for a large female Eurasian Sparrowhawk A. ni...

Do Mediterranean Shags occur in southwest England?

01 April 1993 Comments Main paper In recent years, there have been several reports from southwest England of juvenile Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis resembling juveniles of the Mediterranean race desmarestii. This paper summarises the British reports to date and discusses the problems...

History of the Northern Pintail breeding in Britain and Ireland

01 April 1993 Comments Main paper The Northern Pintail Anas acuta is a sporadic breeding species throughout its range in Eurasia and North America, ft is often reported to breed irregularly, despite apparently catholic nesting requirements. Closer analysis of the species' breeding pref...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

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