Recent reports

01 January 1989
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 14th November 1988 to 2nd January 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Bewick's Swan Cygnus columbianus Adult of nominate race, Durleigh Reservoir (Somerset), several dates from 27th Novemb...
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Monthly reports: September 1988

01 January 1989
Comments News and comment The month began with a spell of very unsettled westerly weather. A depression centred off the west coast of Scotland brought strong-to-gale-force northwest-to-westerly winds across Britain and Ireland, especially on 2nd. In the north of Scotland, the w...
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Recent reports: Monthly reports

01 January 1989
Comments Editorials We have been striving constantly to increase the usefulness of this popular, regular feature. With 'Recent reports' now appearing separately, and with the twitchers' grapevine now formalised, making up-to-the-minute news of rarities available to all fo...
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Letter

01 April 1981
Comments Letters Tail shape of Bulwer's Petrel M. R. Alibone commented on the apparent lack of wedge shape to the tail of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii {Brit, Birds 73: 217). In April 1971, I saw several Bulwer's Petrels off the bulge of Africa in the vicin...
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Announcements

01 April 1981
Comments Editorials 'A Notebook of Birds -- 1907-1980' This new book--an anthology of 'Notes' and 'Letters' published in British Birds, chosen and with a linking commentary by Dr Jim Flegg--will be published in July 1981 by Macmillan London. It is f...
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Notes

01 April 1981
Comments Notes Cormorants perching on overhead cable Further to Neil Trout's note (Brit. Birds 73: 310), I should like to add an observation of some 60 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo standing together on thick overhead cable near Welney, Norfolk, at...
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