Recent reports

01 February 1993
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 4th-17th January 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records . Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Filey Brigg (North Yorkshire), 13th January. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Near Hornea...
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Request and Announcement

01 February 1993
Comments Editorials Blue Tits and flowering currants. It has been known since 1917 that Blue Tits Parus caeruleus feed on the nectar of the flowering currant Ribes sanguineum, which flowers from February to April. The tit pecks a 1-mm to 2-mm oval hole in the ba...
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News and Comment

01 February 1993
Comments News and comment A YEAR-LONG INVESTIGATION by the RSPB, the Nederlandse Vereniging tot Bescherming van Vogels (NVBV) and Tanzanian conservationists has revealed a thriving trade in protected species in Tanzania. Forged paperwork is almost the norm, many species banned ...
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Notes

01 February 1993
Comments Notes Black-headed Gulls foraging behind motor vehicle. On 18th October 1989, while returning from Hilbre Island across the sands to West Kirby, on the Wirral, Cheshire, I noticed a Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus following our Land Rover, Keeping between...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1993
Comments Other The streaky seed-eater (Brit. Birds 85: plate 265) was named as follows: Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis (39%) Linnet Carduelis cannabina (35%) Twite Carduelis flavirostris (17%) Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus (6%) Snowfinch Montifringtlla ...
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Letters

01 February 1993
Comments Letters The Cape Clear 'Griffons' The difficulty which Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus have in maintaining flapping flight for substantial periods over the sea makes it highly improbable that the five unidentified eagle-like birds observed flying past Cape Clear ...
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Reviews

01 February 1993
Comments Reviews Grouse in Space and Time: the population biology of a managed gamebird. By Peter J. Hudson. Game Conservancy, Fordingbridge, 1992. 63 colour plates; 61 line-drawings. £25.00. Over nine million acres of upland Britain are maintained in a highly ar...
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Notes

01 March 1985
Comments Notes Aberrant Slavonian Grebe. A thick-billed and unfamiliarly plumaged Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus appeared on the open marine bathing-pool at Penzance, Cornwall, on 28th December 1981. It was distinctly odd-looking: rather bulky, with a relatively th...
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Mystery photographs

01 March 1985
Comments Main paper The combination of comparatively large head, large eye, slender legs and short bill clearly shows last month's mystery bird (plates 50 & 56) to be a plover. Furthermore, the single breast band (albeit broken in the middle) coupled with otherwi...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 March 1985
Comments Other 'A Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) was shot at Newhythe, near Aylesford, Kent, on November 25th, 1909. I am pleased to say that a police prosecution followed, but the defendant, who pleaded ignorance of the identity of the bird, was let off with the payme...
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