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01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Recent reports

01 March 1993 Comments News and comment This summary cover s the period 18th January to 14th February 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. American Wigeon Anas americana Male, Whitegate (Co. Cork), January to at least 8th February. American Black D...

Monthly marathon

01 March 1993 Comments Other The grey-and-black-and-white bird in December's puzzle picture (Brit. Birds 85: plate 322) was named by entrants as: Caspian Tern Sterna caspia (42%) Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica (40%) Laughing Gull Larus atricilla (6%) Whiskered Tern Ch...

News and Comment

01 March 1993 Comments News and comment LAST CENTURY, Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde supported a quarter of a million pairs of Puffins Fratercula arctica, then common rats Rattus norwegicus got ashore. Slowly but surely, Puffins-- and other seabirds as well as vegetation--were devastated ...

Twenty-five years ago...

01 March 1993 Comments Other 'The nesting of a pair of Snowy Owls Nyctea scandiaca on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1967 was the first substantiated record in the wild in the British Isles. Publicity was inevitable and so the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds organised a round...

Mystery photographs

01 March 1993 Comments Main paper On a sunny October morning, while searching for migrants on a scrub-covered coastal headland, a movement in a patch of bracken and bramble catches the eye. After skulking for a few minutes, the bird eventually hops on to an exposed perch, ruffles its p...

From the Rarities Committee's files: Arctic Redpolls in Kent

01 March 1993 Comments Main paper Arctic Redpolls in Kent. The following description was submitted to the Kent Ornithological Society on 24th March 1991, and passed to the Rarities Committee on 20th July 1991. The record was accepted, and published in October 1992 {Brit. Birds 85: 549)...

Letters

01 March 1993 Comments Letters Song Thrushes and Redwings feeding on periwinkles. I was surprised to see the note on Song Thrush Turdus philomelos feeding on common periwinkles Littorina littorina in Kent (Brit. Birds 85: 618). Song Thrushes always fed on the old periwinkl...

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From the Rarities Committee's files: Arctic Redpolls in Kent

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