Martin Gilbert

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment Martin Gilbert, a popular member of the UK birding scene, who was responsible for finding the Cley Slender-billed Gulls Chroicocephalus genei in 1987 and was the guardian of the nesting Black-winged Stilts Himantopus himantopus at Frodsh...
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Dick Brown (1935-2010)

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment Richard George Bolney (Dick) Brown was one of the most intelligent and charming of the Oxford ornithologists of the 1950s. A tall, lanky, sociable figure, for decades no international conference was complete without him in the bar. He was born in Wolverha...
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A new era on Fair Isle

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment The new Fair Isle Bird Observatory is, at the time of writing, almost finished. The £4m+ project, which contributors to BB have helped in a small way by donating their fees for photographs (including the front covers throughout 200...
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Egg smuggler spared jail

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment A clutch of three Osprey eggs was among the haul of 2,000 eggs recovered from the home of an obsessive egg-collector who traded with other collectors around the world and smuggled his illegal purchases into the UK. Andrew Seed's collection, hidden in his...
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Osprey nesting news

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment The UK's oldest breeding female Osprey Pandion haliaetus has returned to nest at the Loch of the Lowes in Perthshire for the 20th year in a row, and has laid eggs. The 25-year-old has now produced nearly 60 eggs in her lifetime, and has managed t...
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Recent reports

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early April to early May 2010. Headlines Arguably, all the 'best' birds in this period were short-stayers: Pacific Golden Plover in London, European Roller in Co. Wexford, Calandra Lark in Lincolnshire and White...
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News and comment

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment As N&c goes to press, there has yet to be official con- firmation of the theme for this year's British Bird- watching Fair at Rutland Water in August. But the beneficiary of this year's event would seem to be the restricted-range endemic birds of southern...
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