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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...

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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1995

01 November 1996 Comments Main paper After another year of excellent co-operation with many people, the British Birds Rarities Committee presents a comprehensive Report. The BBRC may be perceived as isolated and remote, but it is part of a network involving individual observers, county re...

News and comment

01 September 1973 Comments News and comment Pickled birds on the menu A recent press statement by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds draws attention to a distasteful matter not yet covered by legislation: the importing of pickled birds from Cyprus. It is thought that five to s...

Letters

01 September 1973 Comments Letters Scope of 'British Birds' I have been receiving British Birds for a few years now, and it appears to me that the present trend is to include more and more foreign material. For example, the March 1973 issue contained papers on the iden...

Notes

01 September 1973 Comments Notes Unusual hunting behaviour of Sparrowhawks During February 1972, at Benacre, Suffolk, I spent several hours observing a pair of Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus hunting over a particular field which had been left to seed. This field was the feeding ...

Studies of less familiar birds 171: Red-necked Nightjar

01 September 1973 Comments Main paper Squatting motionless on the ground among dead wood and sand litter, the Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis is made almost invisible by its disruptive pattern of grey, rufous and buff, with heavy streaks on the crown and scapulars characteristic...

Identification of some scarce or difficult west Palearctic species in Iran

01 September 1973 Comments Main paper Following the joint initiatives of Dr D. A. Scott and P. A. D. Hollom, and through the courtesy and assistance of the Iranian Department of Environmental Conservation, an expedition visited Iranian Baluchistan between 31st March and 19th April 1972. It...

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Studies of less familiar birds 171: Red-necked Nightjar

Identification of some scarce or difficult west Palearctic species in Iran

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