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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Recent reports

01 September 1992
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 18th July to 14th August 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis Old Head of Kinsale (Co. Cork), 4th August. Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea ...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1992
Comments Other June's bathing bird (plate 132) was named as a greater variety of species than any previous photograph in this series: Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba (63%) Hoopoe Upupa epops (6%) Citrine Wagtail M. citreola (4%), with other votes for Barnacle Goose Brant...
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News and comment

01 September 1992
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'.  Extra protection for Minsmere and Walberswick.  The extensive wetlands and other habitats at Minsmere and Walberswick, Suffolk, have been declared a Spe...
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Requests

01 September 1992
Comments Editorials Rare breeding birds. Observers with information on rare breeding birds in Britain are requested to send full details now to the relevant county bird recorder (or to the Rare Breeding Birds Panel's Secretary, Robert Spencer, Iredale Place Cottage, Lowes...
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Announcements

01 September 1992
Comments Editorials 'BB' goes owling. A special BB-SUNBIRD trip to Finland in search of owls has been arranged for 9th-18th May 1993, led by Finnish raptor expert Dick Forsman and Killian Mullamey. In the south, we expect to find Eagle Bubo bubo, Pygmy Glaucidlium passeri...
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