Recent reports

01 November 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 15th September to 12th October 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Rostellan (Co. Cork), 9th-12fh Oct...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Personalities. 30. R. A. Hume

01 May 1983 Comments Main paper Rob Hume, expert on gulls and terns, wildlife artist, formerly co-editor of the greatly acclaimed West Midland Bird Club annual report and more recently co-compiler of the British Birds feature 'Recent reports' (largely unchecked!), is well known to bi...
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Territorial behaviour of Kestrels

01 May 1983 Comments Main paper Birds of prey exhibit a wide range of dispersion patterns, determined in part by their response to varying prey availability (Newton 1979). The Kestrel Falco tinnunculus has been recorded nesting colonially (Fennel 1954), or solitarily, with pairs defe...
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BTO is 50 years old

01 May 1983 Comments Main paper The British Trust for Ornithology is 50 years old this month, and we take this opportunity to salute its Golden Jubilee. We do this not without a certain degree of pride, for it was within these pages, in the issue of May 1933, that there app...
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