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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Monthly marathon

01 December 1992
Comments Other It was a Ring-billed Gull, photographed in Lancashire in February 1991 by Malcolm Rains. Once again, all the leading competitors got the answer right, so Graham Catley, Roy Hargreaves, Hannu Jännes, Peter Lansdown, Pekka J. Nikander and Dave Nurney al...
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Reviews

01 December 1992
Comments Reviews An Atlas o f the Breeding Birds of Shropshire. Edited by Peter Deans, Jack Sankey, Leo Smith, John Tucker, Chris Whittles & Colin Wright. Shropshire Ornithological Society, Shrewsbury, 1992. 204 pages; 142 line-drawings; 140 maps. Paperback £...
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Mystery photographs

01 December 1992
Comments Main paper It is October in southwest Britain and anything can turn up. You are being bombarded by vagrants from all points of the compass when you come upon this unfamiliar bird in some poplars Populus (plate 267, repeated here in black-and-white). You real...
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Seasonal reports Spring 1992

01 December 1992
Comments News and comment A mild and changeable March, with little sunshine, was followed by a rather cloudy April, but with temperatures mostly 1°C above average. Northern Britain again had rainfall on or above par, but it was rather dry in eastern England. In contrast, May w...
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ICBP news

01 December 1992
Comments Editorials Menderes delta. This June, H R H Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, opened an information centre at the Menderes Delta, one of the most important sites for birds in Turkey. A 13,000-ha wetland at the mouth of the River Menderes on the western coast...
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