01 August 2019CommentsLatest issues
422 BB eye Ian Carter
427 News and comment Adrian Pitches
431 The migrations of British Common Sandpipers Ron Summers, Brian Bates, Louise d...
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01 August 2019CommentsEditorials
By Ian Carter
On 1st August 1989, a handful of young Swedish Red Kites Milvus milvus were sitting patiently in their holding pens, tucked away in a secluded valley in the Chiltern Hills in southern England. Later that day they w...
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01 August 2019CommentsNews and comment
Compiled by Adrian Pitches
Hen Harriers – good news and bad news
The good news is that there were four Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus nests on the United Utilities Bowland...
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01 August 2019CommentsMain paper
Ron Summers, Brian Bates, Louise de Raad, Norman Elkins and Brian Etheridge
Abstract The migrations of Common Sandpipers Actitis hypoleucos are described by combinin...
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01 August 2019CommentsMain paper
Since 1992, The Carl Zeiss Award has been presented to acknowledge exceptional submissions to the British Birds Rarities Committee. Currently, the award is given for the best overall submission for which assessment has been completed during the previou...
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01 August 2019CommentsRecent Reports
Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Harry Hussey
This summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early June to early July 2019.
Headlines Top of the list for this period was an e...
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01 August 2019CommentsEditorials
My patch-watching began after meeting the late Cameron Bespolka during an RSPB Phoenix Conservation Weekend at RSPB Saltholme. His passion for birding his local patch (as well as his incredible list of birds) inspired me to find my own. We used to chat...
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