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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

Recent reports

01 May 1994 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 22nd March to 17th April 1994 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris Regular individual returned to Hermaness (Shetland), 26th March. Black Stork Cico...

Monthly marathon

01 May 1994 Comments Other February's breast-banded passerine (plate 33) was named as Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris (66%), Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (21%), Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (11%) and Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla (2%), It was a juvenile Ho...