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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Recent reports

01 March 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 16th January to 12th February 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Embo Pier (Highland), 19th January. Lesser Wh...
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News and comment

01 March 1995
Comments News and comment Strict regulations to improve the energy efficiency of new buildings. The introduction of carbon or energy taxes and VAT on domestic energy use. Subsidies to the nuclear-power industry to be phased out. Minimum efficiency standards to be applied to dom...
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Reviews

01 March 1995
Comments Reviews Birds of Iberia By Clive Finlayson & David Tomlinson. Mirador Publications, Fuengirola, 1993. 220 pages; over 150 colour plates; 19 line-drawings. ISBN 84-88127-08-1. £20.00. This colourful book will surely achieve the authors' commendable ho...
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Letters

01 March 1995
Comments Letters I was fascinated to read the reference, in the item on 'Identification by taste', to my great-grandfather, John Cordeaux (Brit. Birds 87: 447). I looked up his last publication, a revised list of British Birds belonging to the Humber District (1899), a...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1995
Comments Other With the closing date for January's entries (28th February) coming a week after this March issue will have been printed and five days after it will have been posted to subscribers, the identity of the bird on the overhead wire (plate 10) will be reveal...
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