The ornithological year 1993

01 October 1994
Comments Main paper This report attempts to summarise the major bird movements and influxes of 1993, as well as rarity highlights. All the rarities noted here have been accepted by either the BBRC or the Irish Rare Birds Committee. Those records still pending are, therefo...
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News and comment

01 October 1994
Comments News and comment LINDISFARNE NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE, situated on the North Northumberland coast and embracing part of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, was established in 1964. Managed by English Nature, it was designated a Special Protection Area in March 1992 under EC...
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Letters

01 October 1994
Comments Letters Bannerman and the Black Oystercatcher. It is difficult not to sympathise with the sentiment in Bernard Zonfrillo's mourning of the Great Auk Pinguinus impennis, exterminated by man's hand on 3rd June 1844 (Brit. Birds 87: 269-270), but his blaming of t...
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Announcements

01 October 1994
Comments Editorials Non-profit-making status. As a result of anonymous queries, the status of British Birds Ltd as a non-profit-making company was recently investigated and upheld by the Principal Trading Standards Officer of the Trading Standards Department, who dismisse...
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Notes

01 October 1994
Comments Notes Little Ringed Plover eating tadpole. On 14th May 1989, at a disused, partly infilled gravel-pit in Leicestershire which had been prone to extensive winter flooding, the area was swarming with tadpoles of the common frog Rana temporaria. A Little Ringed...
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Reviews

01 October 1994
Comments Reviews Where to Watch Birds in Ireland. By Clive Hutchinson. Christopher Helm Publishers, London, 1994. 257 pages; 31 line-drawings; numerous maps. ISBN 0-7136-3827-3. Paperback £10.99. Five years after publication of his definitive Birds in Ireland, Clive H...
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Twenty-five years ago

01 October 1994
Comments Other Not a single Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phyloscopus proregulus was found in Britain and Ireland in October 1969 (despite there having been 18 in 1968), nor were there any Radde's Warblers P. schwarzi. No Dusky Warbler P. fuscatus was observed on land either...
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