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October 2019 – contents

01 October 2019 Comments Latest issues The BBRC annual report needs little introduction to regular readers, since it is now 60 years since our national rarities committee was first established. Andy Stoddart looks back over the first six decades in his ‘BBRC birthday’ BB eye on p...

BB eye: Sixty years of BBRC

01 October 2019 Comments Editorials Andy Stoddart Rare vagrants have always exerted a powerful pull on our imagination. In an era dominated by the threat of ecological collapse this may be a somewhat disproportionate response to their real importance but nevertheles...

News & comment

01 October 2019 Comments News and comment Compiled by Adrian Pitches Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of British Birds. White-tailed Eagles reintroduced to the Isle of Wight T...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2018

01 October 2019 Comments Main paper Chas Holt, Paul French and the Rarities Committee Chairman’s introduction This is the 61st annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee, and another which i...

Brood management of Hen Harriers

01 October 2019 Comments Letters It was very disappointing to read the recent account of our work on Hen Harrier conservation in News & comment’ (‘Hen Harriers – good news and bad news’; Brit. Birds 112: 427). As the Natural England directors responsible for this wo...

Wing-tagged Red Kites in England

01 October 2019 Comments Letters In Ian Carter’s excellent article on the Red Kite reintroduction in the August edition (Brit. Birds 112: 422–426) he stated that ‘The birds now present do not carry wing-tags’. I understand that he is talking in the context of the Chilte...

African Raptors

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My patch – Shieldhill Farm

01 October 2019 Comments Editorials My patch comprises Shieldhill Farm and some adjoining land, including the Bennan Loch and Lochcraig Reservoir, and lies close to the town of Eaglesham, in East Renfrewshire, around 15 km south of Glasgow. On the edge of the Eaglesham Moor, the farm is ...

Recent Reports

01 July 1977 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers April and the first part of May and, except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to April. Spring arrivals Until 15th, the weather was most unsuitab...

Autumn migration summary

01 July 1977 Comments Editorials Autumn 1976 will be remembered as yet another exceptional period for rarities, probably rivalling 1975 for the number and quality of passerine vagrants. These records, however, will be dealt with in the 'Report on rare birds' for 1976, so I shall not b...

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