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01 October 2008 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mainly new arrivals between early August and early September 2008. ...

News and comment

01 October 2008 Comments News and comment Bird-of-prey conservation has faced no fewer than three major setbacks in the past month: Defra has confirmed that a bare minimum of raptor species will require registration for captive-breeding in future; one of the first Red Kites Milvus milvus reint...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2007

01 October 2008 Comments Main paper This is the fiftieth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. This is not an insignificant milestone and, as last year's introduction alluded, there are a number of changes in personnel responsible for the production of this report. After...

British Birds – October 2008

01 October 2008 Comments Latest issues ...

Golden-winged Warbler: new to the Western Paleartic

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper On 24th January 1989, Mrs C. Miller noticed a colourful bird feeding in the garden of her house at Larkfield, Kent. Though not a birdwatcher, she realised that it was unusual, and made a drawing of it. Three days later, it reappeared, and Mr Miller man...

Mystery photographs

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper Even with it in silhouette, the majority of readers would surely recognise the dagger-like bill, flat crown with crest, fairly elongated wings and shortish tarsi of last month's mystery bird (plate 254, reproduced here in black-and-white) as a ter...

Monthly marathon

01 November 1992 Comments Other The plummeting raptor (plate 181) was named as: Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus (78%) Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus (8%) Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus (6%), with a few votes each for Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus, Dark Chanting Goshawk Mel...

Identification pitfalls and assessment problems. 14. Crane Grus grus

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper This series, which started in January 1983 (Brit. Birds 76: 26-28), is not intended to cover all facets of the identification of the species concerned, but only the major sources of error likely to mislead the observer in the field or the person attemp...

Dispersal and age to first breeding of Buzzards in central Wales

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper During the four years 1975-78, we studied the ecology of carrion-feeding birds in the uplands of Central Wales. The Buzzard Buteo buteo was one of the species investigated. Most of our observations were made within a defined study area, about 35 km fro...

Editorial: past, present and future

01 November 1992 Comments Editorials Ever since its inception in 1907, British Birds has served the birdwatching community by providing' a balanced mixture of items covering almost all aspects of ornithology. We shall be continuing this record of service by introducing a number of excitin...

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