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01 March 1998 Comments Other The bunting Emberiza {Brit. Birds 90: plate 208) was named as Cirl E. cirlus (52%), Yellowhammer E. citrinella (29%), Rustic E. rustica (10%), Pine E. leucocephalos (5%) and Yellow-breasted E. aureola (4%). It was a female Cirl Bunting, photographed in...

Looking Back

01 March 1998 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago: 'The name of Witherby has been inseparably linked with British Birds since the journal's foundation in 1907. H. F. Witherby, who conceived the original idea and secured the support of his fellow ornithologists for its launching, ...

Dowitcher identification and ageing: A photographic review

01 March 1998 Comments Main paper All three species of dowitcher Limnodromus are described and illustrated in all their substantive plumages, including the three races of Short-billed L. griseus and the poorly known Asian Dowitcher L. semipalmatus. The various identification criteria f...

Mystery Photographs

01 March 1998 Comments Main paper When Britain and Ireland's first Ring-billed Gull Lams delawarensis was discovered in Glamorgan in March 1973, there were already over 60 North American species on the British & Irish List. By January 1988, however, Ring-billed Gull had become our ...

Cetti's Warblers in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands in 1996

01 March 1998 Comments Main paper ...

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