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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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Britain and Ireland's first 'soft-plumaged Petrel'

01 October 1999 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Details are presented of the first temperate North Atlantic sighting, in 1974, of a `Soft-plumaged Petrel' (i.e. Madeira Petrel Pterodroma madeira or Cape Verde Petrel P feae)1. The difficulties and problems encountered at the time through lac...

Looking back

01 October 1999 Comments Other FIFTY YEARS AGO On 8th October 1949, a bird shaped like a Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia, but with plumage tones recalling a Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, was watched in a turnip and cabbage patch at Leogh on Fair Isle, Shetland -&nb...

Range extension of Long-tailed Rosefinch into Western Palearctic

01 October 1999 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Records of Long-tailed Rosefinch Uragus sibiricus in the Western Palearctic are generally attributed to escapes from captivity. The species has, however, greatly expanded its Siberian range and now occurs during nomadic movements as far west a...

Monthly marathon

01 October 1999 Comments Other The slim body and long legs of the bird in plate 160 (repeated here as plate 216), with that obvious, long, fairly flat hind claw, long tertials, relatively long, narrow tail and distinctive, darkcentred, pale-edged median coverts all point to a pipit ...

Reviews

01 October 1999 Comments Reviews A test of the figures (and text) for Sora Crake Porzana carolina showed that helpful characters, such as the crown pattern and eye streak, had been wholly or partly omitted; a second close read, however, of Little P. parva and Baillon's Crakes P. pusil...

Letters

01 October 1999 Comments Letters I read with interest the letters from Bill Simpson and Paul Milne (Brit. Birds 92: 428-430), and the earlier one from Anthony McGeehan published alongside my own letter on behalf of the BOU Records Committee (BOURC) (Brit. Birds 92: 212-214). I have no...

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News and Comment

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

British Birds – November 2003

Britain and Ireland's first 'soft-plumaged Petrel'

Looking back

Range extension of Long-tailed Rosefinch into Western Palearctic

Monthly marathon

Reviews

Letters

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