Recent Reports

01 September 1991
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 12th July to 15th August 1991 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Gosford Bay, 31st July, and Aberlady Bay (both Lothian), sporadically, 4th-14th August. Little...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1991
Comments Other A nice easy one for a change' That, we suspect, is what many contestants thought as they hastily wrote 'Shore Lark' on their postcards. The votes were as follows: Shore Lark Eremophila alpestris (50%) Temminck's Horned Lark E. bilopha (50%)The entrants...
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News and Comment

01 September 1991
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Definitely a record After an astonishing total of 37 years, Mrs N. D. Blamire will no longer be compiling the annual index of British Birds. Diana started way back...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1991
Comments Other 'A PAIR of Hobbies (Falco s. subbuteo) nested and reared a brood of young in a wood not far from Leicester in the summer of 1915. I saw both parents as well as the young. The female was unfortunately shot in August 1915, and came into my possession in ...
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Announcements

01 September 1991
Comments Editorials Rare Breeding Birds Panel. The work of the Panel has been supported since its inception in 1973 by British Birds, the BTO, the NCC and the RSPB. In April 1991, however, the NCC ceased to exist, its functions being taken over by three separate bodies: E...
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Letters

01 September 1991
Comments Letters Roosting behaviour of seabirds. It is human nature to avoid raising even obvious questions when no answer appears to be in sight. I nevertheless raise such a question here. Birds of the open ocean, far from land, must not only roost but also sleep on t...
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Notes

01 September 1991
Comments Notes Black-throated Diver attacking Great Crested Grebe. O n 29th December 1984, on the Egleton reserve at Rutland Water, Leicestershire, we watched a Black-throated Diver Gavia arctica dive close to a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus which was s...
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Mystery photographs

01 September 1991
Comments Main paper The bird in the mystery photograph (plate 167, repeated here) has, proportionately, a small, narrow head; very long, broad wings with fingered primaries; and a full but short tail. Although there is nothing in the photograph against which to estimate t...
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Fieldwork action

01 September 1991
Comments Editorials Are Nightjar numbers still on the way down? The first sign of a decline in numbers of Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus was in 1952, and, since the BTO Nightjar Survey of 1957-58, the trend has been one of a continuing decrease, especially in the North a...
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Morocco

01 September 1991
Comments Main paper In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Morocco was a very popular spring destination for North European birdwatchers. In recent years, its popularity has been eclipsed somewhat by that of Israel. While the two have many species in common, Morocco holds a g...
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