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British Birds – December 2009

01 December 2009 Comments Latest issues ...

What makes a good alien?

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper Dealing with the problems of non-native wildfowl ...

Progress of the UK Ruddy Duck eradication programme

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper ...

Britain’s first Baikal Teal

01 December 2009 Comments BOURC ABSTRACT Evidence supporting the natural vagrancy of a Baikal Teal Anas formosa shot in Denmark in November 2005 prompted BOURC to review the British records of this species.The results of a stable-hydrogen isot...

Stable-hydrogen isotope analyses suggest natural vagrancy of Baikal Teal to Britain

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

Crossbills in Sweden in 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Obituary: Stuart Smith, D.Sc, Ph.D. (1906-1963)

01 October 1955 Comments Obituaries T H E U N T I M E L Y D E A T H of Dr. Stuart Smith on j t h August, 1963 as a result of unexpected complications following an operation which it had been anticipated would be a comparatively minor one, has deprived British ornithology of one of its most ...

Recent reports

01 October 1955 Comments News and comment [These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] This summary is mainly concerned with the period from 21st July to 10th September. Highlights included a heavy passage of northern waders, a striking movement of Black Terns, the now annual ...

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