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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Some notes on the Crested Lark

01 June 1948
Comments Main paper the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland. For most of the time two of us were together. In 1946 one of us was for a short time again in Germany. Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristata) were seen wher...
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Letters

01 June 1948
Comments Letters SIRS,--The Royal Naval Bird-Watching Society has now been in existence for just over a year. I t has some t w o hundred and sixty members drawn from the ranks of t h e Royal Navy, Royal Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Navies. These observers range fr...
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Notes

01 June 1948
Comments Notes As a member of the local fire brigade I was able to make some close observations on the behaviour of birds at a big oil-tank fire at Pembroke Dock in August and September, 1940. The fire blazed for many days and gave rise to intense heat and an immense c...
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