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 April 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The following summary deals with December 1972 and January 1973, with February taken into account in some cases where relevant. The weather during this time was characterised by its extrao...
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News and comment

01 April 1973 Comments News and comment 1973 All-Ireland Conference It is usually encouraging to see an ornithological conference attracting public attention, but this All-Ireland Conference, held at Newcastle, Co. Down, during 2nd-4th March, perhaps went too far in that it started w...
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Rare Breeding Birds Panel

01 April 1973 Comments Editorials In 1968 the council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds established a subcommittee, known as the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, to collect together in one place the records of rare breeding birds in Britain. This subcommittee consisted of A. W...
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Reviews

01 April 1973 Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. By Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. Oxford University Press, Bombay. Vol 5 (1972): 276 pages; 10 colour plates; many line drawings and maps. Vol 6 (1971): 245 pages; 8 colour plates; many line drawings a...
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Notes

01 April 1973 Comments Notes Arctic Skuas repeatedly chasing passerines On 24th and 25th July 1971, a weekend of rough, wet weather, I noted eleven and 38 Arctic Skuas Stercorarius parasiticus respectively at Aberlady Bay, East Lothian. They were continually chasing Kittiw...
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