Recent reports

01 October 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 14th August to 17th September 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 10th...
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News and comment

01 October 1995
Comments News and comment It was in 1990 that the (then) Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the RSPB published Red Data Birds in Britain, identifying 117 species in need of 'our care and attention'. Knowledge relating to the status of some of these species was inevitably sket...
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Notes

01 October 1995
Comments Notes In 1992, in the village of Byshkiv in the Lviv region of Ukraine, I noted a White Stork Ciconia ciconia regularly taking domestic ducklings. While the ducklings, which were two or three weeks old, were swimming on the water, the stork moved sharply tow...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1995
Comments Other As noted last month, the closing dates for the last three hurdles (plates 97, 111 and 126) are all 15th October 1995, so the answers will be given next month. This month's hurdle is shown below (plate 140). The current leaders in this competition are J...
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Looking Back

01 October 1995
Comments Other 'Burrow-chat, Wheatear or White-rump, Saxicola OEnanthe. Abundant on the sand links along our coast, where it arrives early in the spring, and breeds in the deserted rabbit-holes . . . It is delicious eating, although in this neighbourhood it is neglec...
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The ornithological year 1994

01 October 1995
Comments Main paper This report summarises the major bird movements and influxes of 1994, as well as including the rarity highlights. All the rarities noted here have been accepted by either the British Birds Rarities Committee or the Irish Rare Birds Committee, with...
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