Monthly marathon

01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Recent reports

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...
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News and comment

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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Reviews

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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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