Recent reports

01 August 1999 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers 7th June to 5th July 1999. The text and photographs relate to unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris One 16 km south of Looe (Cornwall), 19th June, photographed...
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News and Comment

01 August 1999 Comments News and comment We all know the story of the toxic sludge that spilled from the Aznalcollar mine in Spain on 25th April 1998. Spanish conservationists claim that some 70,000 birds have been heavily contaminated. There is still uncertainty about continuing environmenta...
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Monthly marathon

01 August 1999 Comments Other The affinities of the dumpy, small-billed bird depicted in June's photograph (plate 104, repeated here as plate 159) may not have been immediately obvious to some readers, the bird perhaps bearing a resemblance to a dove Streptopelia or even a lark (Al...
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Reviews

01 August 1999 Comments Reviews By Lars Svensson & Peter J. Grant; illustrated by Killian Mullarney & Dan Zetterstrøm; translated by David Christie. HarperCollins, London, 1999. 400 pages; 3,500 paintings; about 700 distribution maps. ISBN 0-00-219728-6. Hardback £24.99. We...
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Letters

01 August 1999 Comments Letters I completely agree with the comments of Dr J. T. R. Sharrock (Brit. Birds 92: 62-63) and Anthony McGeehan (Brit. Birds 92: 212-213), and so do many others whom I know. I should, however, like to remind Mr McGeehan that, although Ireland is indeed a che...
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Announcements

01 August 1999 Comments Editorials Subscribers can claim a 10% reduction on the following overseas birdwatching trips in the year 2000 with the bird-tour company, `Sunbird'. 12th-20th February NORTHERN ISRAEL with Sean McMinn and Hadoram Shirihai, for winter specialities such as Imperia...
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What, no running water?

01 August 1999 Comments Main paper I am standing on a minor road in the middle of farmland typical of central England. Along one side of the road there is a bit of a ditch, with some scattered remains of a hedgerow, a tree here and there, and a barbed-wire fence, but mostly an open boun...
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Recent reports

01 October 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 16th August to 12th September 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records   White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla Navax Point (Cornwall), 11th September. Oriental Pratincole Glareola ma...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 October 1993 Comments Other On 12th October 1968, Britain's first-ever Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata was found near the Post Office on St Agnes, Isles of Stilly, and ten days later, on 22nd October, a second was mistnetted, in Nant withy-bed on Bardsey Island (Brit. Birds 6...
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