Letters

01 September 2002
Comments Letters While it came as no great surprise to the observers of the `Dungeness petrel' (Brit. Birds 95: 156-165) that the record was rejected, this feeling merely reflects what we take to be a widespread view among observers: that the BBRC finds it very difficu...
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Letters

01 February 2000
Comments Letters Syroechkovski et al. (1998) have recently published the results of a study of Brent Geese Branta bernicla in northwest Yakutia, Russia. They claimed to have located a previously unknown contact zone of Dark-bellied Brent Goose Branta (b.) bernicla and ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1990
Comments Other 'CUCKOO' S METHOD OF DEPOSITING EGG. On May 19th, 1915,I visited an old friend of mine in Norfolk. He leads a very secluded life but is a keen observer of natural history and a man whose word one can trust implicitly. There are some ...
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Notes

01 December 1988
Comments Notes Fulmar attempting to take young Raven from nest. On 29th April 1985, while walking along the cliffs at Yesnaby, Mainland, Orkney, I approached a traditional nest site of a Raven Corvus corax. From about 150 m, I looked through binoculars at the nest, w...
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Notes

01 July 1985
Comments Notes Petrels eating contraceptives, polythene and plastic beads. As part of a more detailed study on the food and feeding ecology of the Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, regurgitations from adults and chicks from colonies on the Firths of Forth and Clyd...
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