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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

'Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard Richardson Award'

01 July 1988 Comments Main paper The sponsorship of 'Bird Illustrator of the War' bv Kowa telescopes is warmly welcomed, and is particularly appropriate, since an increasing number of artists use scopes when sketching birds in the field. The winners were as follows: ...

The Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus (puffinus?) yelkouan

01 July 1988 Comments Main paper In the classical Greek period, 2,500 years ago, two seabirds had already given rise to immortal legends in the eastern Mediterranean. The Siren was reputed to lure seafarers to their doom by singing upon outlying rocks, a habit found in a variety of ma...

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01 July 1988 Comments Notes Iris colour in Sylvia warblers...

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March reports

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01 January 1986 Comments Letters Nests of Sparrowhawk and Kestrel. I looked at the 'Best recent black-and-white bird-photographs' (Brit. Birds 77: 250-258) with much admiration, but feel bound to comment on the statement relating to plates 97-99-- showing Kestrel Falco tinnunculus and...

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The Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus (puffinus?) yelkouan

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