Recent reports

01 October 2004
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid August to mid September 2004. Canvasback Aythya valisineria Private site (Kent), 15th August. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca Chew Valley Lake (Somerset), 20th August to 1st September. Zino's/Fea's Petrel Pterod...
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News and Comment

01 October 2004
Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Crake Crex crex is a familiar, if depressing, story. Mechanical mowing and the early harvesting of crops, before the end of the breeding season, have had a catastrophic effect on Corn Crakes in Britain and across much of western Eu...
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Conservation research news

01 October 2004
Comments News and comment One of the assumptions that scientists often make about territorial birds is that individuals will choose the best breeding sites available. Consequently, when populations are small, every individual occupies a high-quality site but, as populations grow, ...
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The Carl Zeiss Award 2004

01 October 2004
Comments Main paper One of the difficulties for the judging panel of the Carl Zeiss Award, for photographs of rarities assessed by the BBRC during the preceding year, is that we have to think of something new to say in our report each year. This year it was easy, in fact it ...
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AudouinÕs Gull: new to Britain

01 October 2004
Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A second-summer Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii was found at Dungeness, Kent, on 5th May 2003. It lingered in the area for the remainder of the day, commuting between the shore and nearby pools on the RSPB reserve. It was present again the followi...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 2001
Comments Other December's photograph (plate 364 in volume 93, repeated here as plate 48) is obviously of a wader/shorebird (depending on which side of the Atlantic you come from) and, judging by its proportions, and by its size in relation to the vegetation in the ba...
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Reviews

01 February 2001
Comments Reviews THREATENED BIRDS OF THE WORLD By BirdLife International. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, 2000. 852 pages; maps, colour illustrations. ISBN 0 946888 39 6. £70.00. Many BB readers travel the World to indulge their pass...
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News and Comment

01 February 2001
Comments News and comment A national census of Mute Swans Cygnus olor will take place in spring 2001, repeating the last one, conducted in 1990. Mute Swans are widespread during the breeding season on all manner of wetlands, including small lakes and, particularly, riv...
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Letters

01 February 2001
Comments Letters Although the concluding remarks of Vinicombe & Harrop's paper (Brit. Birds 92: 225255) were somewhat contradictory, it is now received wisdom that an influx of wild Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurred in northern and southwestern Britain in...
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