Recent Reports

01 July 1991
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 10th May to 13th June 1991 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records Little Egret Egretta garzetta Lough Beg (Co. Londonderry), 10th-12th June; Corballis (Co. Dublin), 11th June. Great White Egret Egr...
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News and Comment

01 July 1991
Comments News and comment Ecuador tragedy. We were saddened to hear of the tragic death of John Mullins in a car accident in Ecuador in March, the vehicle concerned rolled some 200 m down a steep hillside: John was killed instantly. Of his three travelling c...
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Announcements

01 July 1991
Comments Editorials 'BB' in Israel 1991. The special 'BB'-SUNBIRD trip during 11th-25th September 1991 (announced Brit. Birds 83: 246-247) is already well supported, but there are still a few places remaining. The trip's itinerary provides a unique opportunity to combine ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1991
Comments Other NEARLY every recent book on British birds mentions Wiltshire as one of the counties in which the Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) breeds, but I am of opinion that this is one of those errors which get copied from one work to another. I know no part of ...
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Notes

01 July 1991
Comments Notes Bewick's Swan resembling Whooper Swan. On 19th February 1989, J. A. McGeoch informed me of the presence of an interesting immature Bewick's Swan Cygnus columbianus near Wells, Somerset. On the following day, I obtained a photograph of the bird (pl...
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Monthly marathon

01 July 1991
Comments Other The bird flying towards us (plate 110)--not a view we often get--was named as 32 different species: Osprey Pandion haliaetus (32%) Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata (10%) Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola (8%) Grey Heron Ardea cinerea (7%) Whi...
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Reviews

01 July 1991
Comments Reviews Man and Wildfowl. By Janet Kear. T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 1990. 288 pages; 103 black-and-white plates; 65 line-drawings. £17.00. Man has had an involvement with wildfowl since he first collected a few eggs and took them back to his cave ...
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Mystery photographs

01 July 1991
Comments Main paper From its general demeanour, this mystery bird (plate 128, repeated here) must be a partridge. The striking head-and-neck pattern further points to one of the Alectoris partridges. This narrows the choice in the Western Palearctic to four. T h...
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