Recent reports

01 March 1989
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th January to 10th February 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Billingham (Cleveland), from at least 31st January. Long-billed Dowitcher L...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1989
Comments Other December's wader (Brit. Birds 81: plate 353) was named by entrants as: Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (73%) Least Sandpiper C. minutilla (12%) Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (7%) Temminck's Stint C. temminckii (3%), with a small n u m b e r of entr...
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News and Comment

01 March 1989
Comments News and comment Official opening by Tony Soper o f'The ZEISS West Germany Wild Goose Observatory' at The Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, November 1988. Left to right, Dr Brian Bertram (Director General), Lady Scott, Sir Peter Scott, Miss Eileen Parsons (Z...
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Reviews

01 March 1989
Comments Reviews The Birdwatcher's Yearbook and Diary 1989. Edited by John Pemberton. Buckingham Press, Maids Moreton, 1988. 320 pages; 17 black-and-white plates; 8 line-drawings. Paperback £8.75. The format follows very closely that of previous years, with some ...
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Monthly reports: October 1988

01 March 1989
Comments News and comment High pressure over Europe affected the weather for most of the month. For the first five days, the anticyclone covered southern England, with westerly cyclonic weatherfarther north over Scotland. The latter moved south over Britain and Ireland as press...
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Request

01 March 1989
Comments Editorials Colour-marked birds: a reminder In general, we do not publish separate requests on this subject (there are too many local studies to include them all). If you see a bird marked in some way (other than with ordinary BTO rings), please report i...
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Announcements

01 March 1989
Comments Editorials If you enjoy BB, recruit a new subscriber, and qualify for the chance to win a life-long free subscription to BB for yourself and the new subscriber whom you have recruited. Using the cut-out form on page xv, send to us the subscription of a new subscr...
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Letter

01 March 1989
Comments Letters Proposed changes to the Voous List. In 1973 and 1977, Professor Karel Voous brought some stability to the nomenclature of Western Palearctic birds and the sequence of their names, with the publication of his 'List of recent Holarctic bir...
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Notes

01 March 1989
Comments Notes Little Grebe apparently imprinted upon female Mallard On 16th, 17th and 19th September 1986, at Marshside lagoons, Southport, Lancashire, I watched a juvenile Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis constantly accompanying a female Mallard Anas platyrhynchos....
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