01 March 2001CommentsEditorials
Foot-and-mouth is the latest in a series of body blows to British farming in recent years. The outbreak of this disease has, however, had ramifications the effects of which extend far beyond those people directly involved with the livestock industry. T...
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01 March 2001CommentsReviews
MIGRATION AND INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION OF WADERS: research and conservation on north Asian, African and European flyways International Wader Studies 10. 1998. 500 pages. ISSN 1354-9944. Paperback, £35.00. Copies available from International Wader St...
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01 March 2001CommentsNews and comment
RSPB Scotland is pressing the Scottish Parliament and Executive to promote large-scale wetlands as a basis for f lood prevention, as well as improving the incentives in agri-environment schemes for positive floodplain management. With predictions that ...
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01 March 2001CommentsLetters
I was not terribly reassured by any of the comments of Mark Avery (Brit Birds 93: 500) in reply to my criticism of the pilot Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis cull and the rationale behind it (93: 394-396). Rather disturbingly, the RSPB's Director of Conse...
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01 March 2001CommentsNotes
On 25th January 1996, on a brief visit to Fareham, Hampshire, I stopped to look at the mudflats. From my car, I saw a number of plastic bags that contained what looked like kitchen waste. The larger bags held several smaller polythene bags.
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01 March 2001CommentsMain paper
For many years, attempts to monitor accurately the British breeding population of European Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus have failed, owing to incomplete submission of data by some recorders concerned with the security and conservation of thi...
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01 March 2001CommentsOther
ON January 17th, 1926, under twenty-three degrees of frost, I drove seventy miles on the chance of seeing an "eagle," which, for the past three weeks, had been frequenting some woods in north Essex.
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01 March 2001CommentsMain paper
ABSTRACT This biannual feature, started 24 years ago (see Brit. Birds 70: 218), provides the only reliable, continent-wide report on population trends and significant, nationally accepted records of rarities.
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01 March 2001CommentsMain paper
The Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs (hereafter referred to simply as the `Chaffinch') is notoriously variable across its Palearctic range. Cramp & Perrins (1994) divided the species into three distinct groups: the coelebs group...
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01 March 2001CommentsMain paper
The rock-strewn sward of Rocky Point, Co. Donegal, looking southwest. The gale-blown scree attracts transoceanic migrants. Featured here are some of the tenants of late September 1999.
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