Recent reports

01 November 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 15th September to 12th October 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Rostellan (Co. Cork), 9th-12fh Oct...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Recent reports

01 March 1992 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 17th January to 14th February 1992 Thes e are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Egret Egretta garzetla At least 40 in Britain (about 25 in Cornwall and Devon and one in Scotland), and at least t...
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News and comment

01 March 1992 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Emergency Zones in Peru. In the light of recent killings of British birdwatchers in Peru (Brit. Birds 83: 515, 567; 84: 239), it should be noted that there ar...
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Notes

01 March 1992 Comments Notes Roosting Hen Harrier killed by fox. On the morning of 14th December 1985, while collecting pellets at a communal roost site of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus on Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, I discovered a quantity of grey and white harrier f...
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Announcements

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Books in British BirdShop. The following books have been added to the list this month: Simms: British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails. Smith: Alfred Russel Wallace.Trodd & Kramer: The Birds of Bedfordshire. For all your book orders, please use the ...
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Requests

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Scarce migrant records To ensure that accurate and comprehensive accounts of scarce migrants and other rarities can be prepared, detailed records of the following species are requested:  inland Black-throated Gavia arctica and Great Northe...
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