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01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...

Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

01 November 2003 Comments Main paper This is the forty-fifth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of the records which have been assessed by BBRC for the year 2002, along with additional, outstanding records from previous years. To enhance the over...

British Birds – November 2003

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A second Ring-billed Gull in Glamorgan

01 December 1973 Comments Main paper Less than three months after the first recorded British occurrence of the Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis, an adult at Blackpill, Swansea Bay, Glamorgan (Hume 1973), D. W. Evans and I found a first-summer bird of this species at the same locality. ...

Ring-billed Gull in Glamorgan

01 December 1973 Comments Main paper At 13.10 hours on 14th March 1973 I scanned a flock of several hundred gulls which were resting on the beach at Blackpill, Swansea Bay, Glamorgan, using a telescope from a range of about 250 metres. The flock, part of a regular high-tide gathering, con...

Shore Larks summering and possibly breeding in Scotland

01 December 1973 Comments Main paper Shore Larks Eremophila alpestris were seen in the Scottish Highlands in the summers of 1972 and 1973; as far as is known, there are no previous records of summering in Britain. P. J. Coe and P. A. M. Gepp were birdwatching on 6th July 1972 when at abou...