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 October 1993
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 16th August to 12th September 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records   White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla Navax Point (Cornwall), 11th September. Oriental Pratincole Glareola ma...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 October 1993
Comments Other On 12th October 1968, Britain's first-ever Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata was found near the Post Office on St Agnes, Isles of Stilly, and ten days later, on 22nd October, a second was mistnetted, in Nant withy-bed on Bardsey Island (Brit. Birds 6...
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News and Comment

01 October 1993
Comments News and comment OVER the last 100 years or so, 90% of the Tees Estuary (Cleveland) has been lost to land claim--the more accurate way to describe what is generally (and wrongly) called 'reclamation'. Between the 1960s and 1970s, over 80% of what remained of Seal Sands...
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Review

01 October 1993
Comments Reviews Bird Census Techniques. By Colin J. Bibby, Neil D. Burgess & David Hill. Academic Press, London, 1992. 257 pages; numerous figs. ISBN 0-12-095830-9. £19.50. This book aims to be a practical manual for those engaged in collecting data on bird ...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1993
Comments Other Grey-cheeked Thrush Cathams minimus (56%), Hermit Thrush C. guttatus (27%), Swainson's Thrush C. ustulatus (9%), Veery C. fuscescens (6%), Dark-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis (1%) and White's Thrush Zoothera dauma (1%).It was a Grey-cheeked Thrush, ...
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