Recent reports

01 November 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 15th September to 12th October 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Rostellan (Co. Cork), 9th-12fh Oct...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Letters

01 January 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--An annual report for the County of Suffolk is to be published, beginning with 1950, and I would be grateful if any of your readers who may have records of observations made in Suffolk in this or subsequent years would be good enough to send them to...
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Books Received

01 January 1951 Comments Editorials Flamingo City. By G. K. Yeates. (Country Life, 25/-). Birds and Men. By E M. Nicholson. (Collins, 21/-). The Sarawak Museum Journal (Vol. V, No. 2, September, 1950). ment Printing Office, Kuching, Sarawak ; $6.00 Straits). (Govern-...
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Reviews

01 January 1951 Comments Reviews Fifteenth Annual Report (1948) and Sixteenth Annual Report (1949) of the British Trust for Ornithology. Price 1/6. Obtainable from B.T.O., 91, Banbury Road, Oxford. These two reports give evidence of much useful work carried on under the auspices of the B...
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Notes

01 January 1951 Comments Notes ON March 23rd, 1947, I observed a presumed male Rook (Corvus fmgilegus) attempting coition on the ground with a presumed female of the same species. The rookery was about 50 yards away.ON,April 4th, 1949, at Little Plumstead, Norfolk, two Rooks were pres...
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