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Golden and White-tailed Eagles in Scotland and Norway: Coexistence, competition and environmental degradation

01 May 1998 Comments Main paper In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, both the White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla and the Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos lived in Scotland, but their ranges there were segregated, the latter's distribution seemingly restricted by competition...

Hybridisation between Lesser Crested and Sandwich Terns in Valencia, Spain, and plumage of offspring

01 May 1998 Comments Main paper Lesser Crested Terns Sterna bengalensis have been recorded regularly and in increasing numbers in the Valencian region of eastern Spain since 1989, and hybridisation with Sandwich Tern S. sandvicensis was recorded from 1994. The plumage of the hybrid j...

The Best Annual Bird Report Awards

01 May 1998 Comments Main paper As we announced last year (Brit. Birds 90: 177-179), the judges' votes and comments were summarised for the benefit of bird report editors in newsACRE, the newsletter of the Association of County Recorders and Editors. Responses from editors included s...

From the Rarities Committee's Files: A report of Long-toed Stint on South Uist

01 May 1998 Comments Main paper A small Calidris sandpiper was present at North Bay and Ardivachar Point, South Uist, Outer Hebrides (then Western Isles), on 4th-7th September 1990. It was found and identified as a Long-toed Stint C. subminuta by T. J. Dix, who submitted the record t...

Mystery Photographs

01 May 1998 Comments Main paper It is perhaps surprising that the mainly sedentary Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis, which breeds no closer to Britain than Iberia, Sardinia, Corsica, Croatia and Romania, has been recorded four times in England and once each in Scotland and ...

Letters

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