Monthly marathon

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Recent reports

01 March 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 16th January to 12th February 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Embo Pier (Highland), 19th January. Lesser Wh...
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News and comment

01 March 1995
Comments News and comment Strict regulations to improve the energy efficiency of new buildings. The introduction of carbon or energy taxes and VAT on domestic energy use. Subsidies to the nuclear-power industry to be phased out. Minimum efficiency standards to be applied to dom...
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Reviews

01 March 1995
Comments Reviews Birds of Iberia By Clive Finlayson & David Tomlinson. Mirador Publications, Fuengirola, 1993. 220 pages; over 150 colour plates; 19 line-drawings. ISBN 84-88127-08-1. £20.00. This colourful book will surely achieve the authors' commendable ho...
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Letters

01 March 1995
Comments Letters I was fascinated to read the reference, in the item on 'Identification by taste', to my great-grandfather, John Cordeaux (Brit. Birds 87: 447). I looked up his last publication, a revised list of British Birds belonging to the Humber District (1899), a...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1995
Comments Other With the closing date for January's entries (28th February) coming a week after this March issue will have been printed and five days after it will have been posted to subscribers, the identity of the bird on the overhead wire (plate 10) will be reveal...
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