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01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...

Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

01 November 2003 Comments Main paper This is the forty-fifth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of the records which have been assessed by BBRC for the year 2002, along with additional, outstanding records from previous years. To enhance the over...

British Birds – November 2003

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Seventy-five years age

01 May 1992 Comments Other 'The repeated notices of the Common Buzzard having been seen in the east and south-east of England are very gratifying to those who have taken much trouble in preserving the nesting areas of this bird in other parts of the British Islands. It points to...

Fieldwork action BTO news

01 May 1992 Comments Editorials Churring the night away. During this month, Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus will be returning to our shores, and breeding in a variety of places. The last ten years have seen a great change in the available habitat for breeding Nightjars. Traditional h...

First-summer Hobbies in the New Forest

01 May 1992 Comments Main paper Génsbøl (1987) mentioned that the Hobby Falco subbuteo has a 'distinctive' first-summer plumage, but he failed to describe it, merely stating that the majority of such individuals presumably remain farther south during the summer. Observations i...

Mystery photographs

01 May 1992 Comments Main paper The March mystery photographs (plates 52 & 53, both repeated here) show an elongated yet strong-looking passerine with a substantial, bi-coloured bill, very large feet, long undertail-coverts and a long tail. Its plumage is rather nondescript: unma...

Letters

01 May 1992 Comments Letters Yellow-legged Herring Gulls in Essex. The note on yellow-legged Herring Gulls Larus argentatus in Essex in 1973-74 [Brit. Birds 84: 342-343), detailing the increase in southwest Essex, failed to mention the dramatic change in status in Essex since 1980...

Notes

01 May 1992 Comments Notes Flight speed of Cormorant. On 31st December 1985, as I was driving with my son along the A10(T) from Littleport, Cambridgeshire, towards Downham Market, Norfolk, an adult Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo rose from the River Great Ouse. It flew along the c...

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