Recent reports

01 October 2004
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid August to mid September 2004. Canvasback Aythya valisineria Private site (Kent), 15th August. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca Chew Valley Lake (Somerset), 20th August to 1st September. Zino's/Fea's Petrel Pterod...
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News and Comment

01 October 2004
Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Crake Crex crex is a familiar, if depressing, story. Mechanical mowing and the early harvesting of crops, before the end of the breeding season, have had a catastrophic effect on Corn Crakes in Britain and across much of western Eu...
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Conservation research news

01 October 2004
Comments News and comment One of the assumptions that scientists often make about territorial birds is that individuals will choose the best breeding sites available. Consequently, when populations are small, every individual occupies a high-quality site but, as populations grow, ...
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The Carl Zeiss Award 2004

01 October 2004
Comments Main paper One of the difficulties for the judging panel of the Carl Zeiss Award, for photographs of rarities assessed by the BBRC during the preceding year, is that we have to think of something new to say in our report each year. This year it was easy, in fact it ...
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AudouinÕs Gull: new to Britain

01 October 2004
Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A second-summer Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii was found at Dungeness, Kent, on 5th May 2003. It lingered in the area for the remainder of the day, commuting between the shore and nearby pools on the RSPB reserve. It was present again the followi...
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Recent reports

01 November 1971
Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This covers August 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. Dull, changeable, showery weather during the first week led into an unusually wet and windy period from 9th to 14th w...
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News and comment

01 November 1971
Comments News and comment N e w R.S.P.B. reserve in Orkney The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has recently acquired its first reserve in Orkney: the Dale of Cottascarth on the main island. The Dale is already scheduled by the Nature Conservancy as a Site of Special Scie...
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Letters

01 November 1971
Comments Letters The late James Fisher's papers Several naturalists have asked me what has been the fate of the working notes and other papers used by my father, the late James Fisher. I hope that the following summary may be useful to naturalists who may wish to have acc...
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Reviews

01 November 1971
Comments Reviews Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World. By Leslie Brown and Dean Amadon. Hamlyn (for Country Life), Feltham, Middlesex, 1968. Two volumes in slip case: 945 pages including 165 bird plates (most in colour), one egg plate (in colour), 15 underwing plates, 9...
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