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 November 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 18th September to 15th October 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus (Cornwall), 13th-14th Octob...
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News and comment

01 November 1995
Comments News and comment We mentioned last month (Brit. Birds 88: 490) that a way had been found of securing money for conservation from the National Lottery through the National Heritage Memorial Fund. News has now reached us that a grant from this fund of £75,147 has been g...
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Reviews

01 November 1995
Comments Reviews Irish Birds. By David Cabot. (HarperCollins, London, 1995. 224 pages. ISBN 0-00-220023-6. Paperback £7.99) The common Irish birds (143 species) each receive one page, including one or two paintings and around 150-200 words of text, covering habitat, b...
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Requests

01 November 1995
Comments Editorials For possible publication in future papers in BB, we welcome colour transparencies, colour prints or black-and-white prints of the following: Ruddy Shelducks Tadoma ferruginea in Britain Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus American Pluvialis domini...
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Announcements

01 November 1995
Comments Editorials Entries are invited for the fifth annual award (see accounts of the first, second, third and fourth awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173; 88: 218-220), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Britain and Ireland which pub...
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