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01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...

Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

01 November 2003 Comments Main paper This is the forty-fifth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of the records which have been assessed by BBRC for the year 2002, along with additional, outstanding records from previous years. To enhance the over...

British Birds – November 2003

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Mortality of Adult and Young Mallards

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper A RECENT examination of the recovery data of Mallards (Anas p. platyrhyncha) ringed under the British Birds marking scheme, from its inception up to 1946, yielded no information as regards migration which was in any way additional to the excellent summary...

Tits and Peanuts

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper DURING the hard weather in February, 1947, my wife and 1 found a small cache of peanuts, preserved in the house since 1939, when we had been in the habit of stringing these together and hanging them up for the tits. On February 12th, therefore, I hung up...

"Plover's Page" Behaviour of Dunlin

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper O N May 3rd, 1931, a sunny day with a fresh N . W . wind, I was on the sea-wall between Marshside and Crossens, on the south side of the Ribble Estuary. On rough pastureland behind the sea-wall a flock of fully 500 Golden Plovers (Pluvialis a. apricaria)...