Recent BBRC Decisions

01 July 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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Monthly Marathon

01 July 1997
Comments Other The answers to both the tenth and the eleventh hurdles (plates 49 and 57) will be given next month; the twelfth appears below (plate 65). The first person to accumulate at least ten correct answers, and also achieve a higher total than any other compet...
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Looking Back

01 July 1997
Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in July/August 1972, Two-barred Crossbills Loxia leucoptera came along in the wake of the 'marked (but not massive)' invasion of Common Crossbills L. curvirostra noted last month. (Brit. Birds 66: 353). ...
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Announcements

01 July 1997
Comments Editorials Please order all your bird-books through 'BB' using British BirdShop. You will get them post free, and Subbuteo will pay a percentage, which will be used to subsidise issues of 'BB'. Thus, as a subscriber, you will gain too. Please order all your bird-...
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Letters

01 July 1997
Comments Letters The paper on the spring migration of White-billed Divers Gavia adamsii past southwestern Norway (Brit. Birds 88: 125-129) prompts a closer examination of the possible significance of spring records in British waters, particularly as it was suggested th...
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