Requests

01 May 1995
Comments Editorials Photographs of 1994 rarities needed. Colour prints, black-and-white prints and colour transparencies are needed to illustrate the Rarities Committee's next report. Please send prints or slides (as soon as possible) to Mrs Sheila Cobban, British Birds, ...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1995
Comments Other The rear view of March's wader (plate 38) provided no serious * problem for the three leaders (Jon Holt, Jakob Sunesen and Peter Sunesen), all of whom (as well as 59% of entrants) identified it as a Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii. Ot...
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Notes

01 May 1995
Comments Notes At about 18.30 hours on 29th September 1989, while watching a Spotted Crake Porzana porzana from a hide at Porth Hellick Pool, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, I became aware of a struggle in the reedbed. Through a 45 X telescope, I clearly saw a Water Rail...
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Looking Back

01 May 1995
Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, on 19th May 1970, a Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla taken from a cat at Fleckney, Leicestershire, was only the third since 1948 (and a second followed, at Fairburn Ings, Yorkshire, on 6th-13th June). A minor Nearctic arrival incl...
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The best annual bird report awards

01 May 1995
Comments Main paper It is with keen anticipation that the four judges assemble to assess the year's batch of annual reports, for the standard these days is so high that comments consist almost entirely of drawing attention to useful summaries, interesting records, pleasin...
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Letters

01 May 1995
Comments Letters It is a pity that British Birds has not been outspoken on the outrageous campaign that is being undertaken to wipe out feral Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Britain. It is surely a matter of concern to all bird-lovers that birds on the British List b...
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