Recent reports

01 September 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 10th July to 13th A u g u s t 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Fetlar (Shetland), 17th-24th July. ...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1995
Comments Other We greatly regret that the closing dates for the last two hurdles (plates 97 and 111) were given incorrectly as 15th July and 15th August, instead of 15th August and 15th September, respectively. We are, therefore, extending the deadline for receipt of...
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News and comment

01 September 1995
Comments News and comment It is not often that the members of the 'N & c' team take the unusual step of giving themselves a pat on the back. Just occasionally we feel we deserve it. Under the heading 'Chemicals and the environment' (Brit. Birds 88: 247), we expressed the op...
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The Carl Zeiss award

01 September 1995
Comments Main paper The purpose of this annual award, presented by Carl Zeiss Ltd, is to encourage the submission of photographs (transparencies or prints) to assist the British Birds Rarities Committee in its assessment of records. The winner receives his or her choice o...
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Reviews

01 September 1995
Comments Reviews The Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. By Ian J. Andrews. I. J.Andrews, Musselburgh, 1995. 185 pages; 32 colour plates; 85 black-and-white illustrations; 17 maps, ISBN 0-9524978-0-8. Paperback £18.50. This is an excellent book and long overdue,...
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Notes

01 September 1995
Comments Notes About 45 minutes before sunset on 16th August 1991, in Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, a relatively tight flock of about 2,000 hirundines was feeding over open water at a height of between 25 m and 100 m when an adult Grey Heron Ardea cinerea approached...
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Request

01 September 1995
Comments Editorials Details of accepted records of adult hybrid Mediterranean Larus melanocephalus x Black-headed Gulls L. ridibundus, detailed descriptions and sketches of such birds and, equally, photographs of them are required for a forthcoming summary paper on the su...
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