The birdwatching year 2000

01 December 2001
Comments Main paper This report summarises the major bird movements and influxes of the year 2000, as well as including the rarity highlights. Unless stated otherwise, all the rarity records noted here have been accepted by the British Birds Rarities Committee (see Brit. ...
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Notes

01 April 1997
Comments Notes On 8th April 1992, while visiting Fes, Morocco, we observed many Alpine Swifts Apus melba feeding very low over the city, some foraging only 3 m above the ground and between the buildings. Many were evidently in poor condition; three were picked up fro...
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Notes

01 October 1996
Comments Notes On 21st June 1992, along the Basingstoke Canal, Hampshire, I came across a family of Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis. While watching the adults feeding their four young, I noticed a Pike Esox lucius about 30 cm long approach through the clear wate...
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Reviews

01 October 1992
Comments Reviews The Birds of Oxfordshire. Edited by J. W. Brucker, A. G. Gosler & A. R. Heryet. The Nature Conservation Bureau, Newbury, 1992. 288 pages; 8 colour plates; 150 line-drawings; 92 maps; 57 histograms. £27.95.The species accounts occupy one-third of t...
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The Rare Breeding Birds Panel

01 March 1992
Comments Main paper In 1968, the RSPB Council established a subcommittee which it named the Rare Breeding Birds Panel. It was small, but from the outset had both a Nature Conservancy Council and a British Birds presence. Five years later, a report commented 'While many re...
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Reviews

01 March 1992
Comments Reviews Atlas des Oiseaux de France en Hiver. By Dosithée Yeatman-Berthelot, assisted by Guy Jarry. Société Ornithologique de France, Paris, 1991. 575 pages; 271 line-drawings; 351 distribution maps. Fr.350.00. The late Laurent Yeatman—a name perh...
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Notes

01 January 1992
Comments Notes Little Grebes sunning in winter. At 11.30 GMT on 4th November 1988, in Chichester Harbour, West Sussex, I observed three Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis loafing between the yachts in Birdham marina. The yachts were moored closely, side by side, an...
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