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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Announcement

01 September 1978
Comments Editorials The Ornithological Society of the Middle East At the annual general meeting of the Ornithological Society of Turkey on 27th April 1978, a resolution was passed changing its name to 'The Ornithological Society of the Middle East'. The geogr...
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Letters

01 September 1978
Comments Letters Great Blue and aberrant Grey Herons I was interested to learn of the two observations of melanistic Grey Herons Ardea cinerea (Brit. Birds 70: 76, 345-346), as well as the one seen in the Camargue, France, by Dr J. G. and Dr P. F. Harrison and ...
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Reviews

01 September 1978
Comments Reviews Wildlife Sound Recording. By John B. Fisher. Pelham Books, London, 1977. 173 pages; 16 black-and-white photographs; 17 figures. £5-95 Many would-be sound recordists are discouraged by the thought that the subject is too technical. This book ex...
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Notes

01 September 1978
Comments Notes Bittern apparently feeding at night by artificial light At 23.30 GMT on 23rd January 1976, while walking along a canal at Kingsmead, Ware, Hertfordshire, I noticed something moving under a sodium lamp a little ahead of me. On further investigat...
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Mystery photographs

01 September 1978
Comments Main paper lt is late August and there are Ruffs Philomachus pugnax and Wood Sandpipers Tringa glareola with the other regular waders at the local sewage-farm. Creeping about 'below' a Dunlin Calidris alpina, there is a much smaller bird, with noticeably dull plu...
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