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Subspecies – more than meets the eye?

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Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 1996

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Egyptian Nightjar in Dorset

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Notes

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Monthly Marathon

01 February 1996 Comments Other With Christmas and New Year postal delays still affecting incoming mail from overseas, even in mid January, we are extending the deadline for receipt of entries for the fourth stage of the current Marathon (December's plate 221). So far, seven species ...

Looking Back

01 February 1996 Comments Other Fifty years ago, a Note reported on: 'COMMON GULLS NESTING ON BIRCH TREES. In June, 1945, during a period of leave spent on Upper Deeside (Aberdeenshire), I noted on several occasions Common Gulls (Larus c. canus), perching on trees near the...

Field Identification of Little and Baillon's Crakes

01 February 1996 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The two small European crakes, Little Crake Porzana parva and Baillon's Crake P. pusilla, usually provide only fleeting views. It is, therefore, very important for observers to know and to concentrate instantly on the diagnostic features, whic...

Minutes of 3rd Conference of European Rarities Committees

01 February 1996 Comments Main paper A total of 28 participants from 16 countries attended the meeting of the Association of European Rarities Committees held in Kecskemet, Hungary, during 26th-28th August 1995 (plate 20). For the next two years, the secretariat of the AERC will be based ...

Recent reports

01 February 1996 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 18th December 1995 to 14th January 1996. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Still present at Nimmo's P...

News And Comment

01 February 1996 Comments News and comment Ask most birders about the National Trust (NT) and they will no doubt have an image of stately homes and gardens--and without doubt that is very much the picture the Trust has presented of itself over the last 100 years since it was established in 1895...

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