Recent reports

01 April 2009
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early February 2009 to early March 2009. Headlines In a quiet period, the highlights included an Ivory Gull and an early Great Spotted Cuckoo in Co. Cork, the returning Pacific Dive...
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News and comment

01 April 2009
Comments News and comment Climate change is already having a detectable impact on birds across Europe. This is the message from a group of scientists who have created the world's first indicator of the impacts of climate change on wildlife at a continental scale. `We hear a lot...
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Reviews

01 April 2009
Comments Reviews CONSIDER THE BIRDS: WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO By Colin Tudge. Allen Lane, London, 2008. 482 pages; numerous line-drawings; five text figures, two as pull-outs. ISBN 978-1-846-14097-6. Hardback, £25.00. This was a difficult book to review. It must ...
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Notes

01 April 2009
Comments Notes Morph ratio of Eleonora's Falcon of Sicily Corn Crake pair-bonding and nesting behaviour A precssion by a Common Snipe and its chicks Great Black-backed Gull killing a rival and stealing mate Red-rumped Swallow nesting i...
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Winter summary

01 October 1976
Comments News and comment There were few reports of gatherings of divers. The only ones of any real interest were as follows: 15 Great Northern Gavia immer at Golspie (Highland) in mid-January; 24 Black-throated G. arctica near Dodman Point (Cornwall) on 20th March; and 35 Red-...
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News and Comment

01 October 1976
Comments News and comment British ornithologists held by guerrillas Since about 9th May, Stephanie Tyler, well known for her studies of Grey Wagtails (e.g. Bird Study, 19: 69-80), together with her husband Lindsay and their two children, Robert (8) and Sarah (5), have b...
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