Recent reports

01 January 2010
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early November to early December 2009. Headlines During a very stormy period, it was birds at sea that caught the eye most, with the best being a Fregetta storm-petrel in the Severn estuary, a Pacific Diver nearby...
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Reviews

01 January 2010
Comments Reviews By Paul Mason and Jake Allsop Poyser, 2009 Hbk, 280pp, many photographs, vignettes and tables ISBN 978-0-7136-7683-9 Subbuteo code M20081 £45.00 BB Bookshop price £36.00 This is the latest in the long-running and gener- ally excellent series ...
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Letters

01 January 2010
Comments Letters In 2007, I was surprised to read (in Flood & Thomas 2007, p. 418) that I had seen a dark- rumped Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus near South Georgia, when what I saw was a bird with markings resembling those of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma le...
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Recent reports

01 December 2004
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid September to mid November 2004. Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Ythan Estuary (Northeast Scotland), 8th-9th October. Redhead Aythya americana Kenfig Pool (Glamorgan), 13th October to 10th November; Barra (Western...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 2004
Comments Other When I first saw Monthly Marathon photo number 209 in print (Brit. Birds 97: plate 265, repeated here as plate 380), I wasn't quite sure what to make of it, but as I wasn't expecting to have to write the solution, I didn't devote much thought to the probl...
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