Mike Madders (1957-2009)

01 March 2010
Comments Obituaries Mike Madders was a professional ornitholo- gist, best known for his work on the likely impact of wind-power development on upland birds in Scotland. He is more popu- larly known for the many books he authored and published. Mike was born in Leicester on ...
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Identification of Caspian Gull

01 March 2010
Comments Main paper Abstract This paper deals with the identification of the Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans. The aim is to synthesise what is currently known about the identification of this species and discuss the appearance of proven and suspected hybrids. The paper is spli...
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Recent BBRC decisions

01 July 2002
Comments News and comment This regular 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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News and Comment

01 July 2002
Comments News and comment A pair of Red-billed Choughs Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax has successfully nested in England, at a site in west Cornwall, for the first time in 50 years. The news has delighted conservationists, especially in Cornwall where the chough features on the county...
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Letters

01 July 2002
Comments Letters Gretton et al. (2002) provided a detailed history of the discovery of the nesting grounds of the Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris by V. E. Ushakov, at Tara, in the valley of the Irtysh River, Russia, in or before 1908. This note provides som...
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