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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. ...

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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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01 July 1982 Comments Reviews Bird Detective. By Peter Robinson. Elm Tree Books, London, 1982.159 pages; 12 photographs. £7.95, Peter Robinson is the Senior Investigations Officer of the RSPB and this book tells the birdwatcher at large something of his work. The Inv...

Recent reports

01 July 1982 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates in this report refer to April unless otherwise stated. The month was dominated by anticyclonic weather conditions and was mostly dry and settled. During the first fiv...

News and comment

01 July 1982 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' Enough to turn a worm A print-out from PATSEARCH--an information service operated by Pergamon International Information Corporation of McLean, Va., USA--giv...

Announcement

01 July 1982 Comments Editorials OUP books We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements with Oxford University Press for several more books to be available (post free in UK & Eire, add 50p overseas) to BB subscribers through British BirdShop (see page vii): A ...

Rarities Committee news andannouncements

01 July 1982 Comments Editorials The 1982 annual meeting was held at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, on 27th March. Keith Vinicombe, who was successful in an election (Brit. Birds 75: 292), started his membership on 1st April 1982. He takes the place vacated, as the longest-serving me...

Letters

01 July 1982 Comments Letters White-headed Duck misidentified as Ruddy Duck I believe that the bird depicted in plate 3 (Brit. Birds 75: 9) is a female White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala and not a female Ruddy Duck O. jamaicensis. We breed these two species here at Arund...

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