Recents reports

01 June 1994
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 18th April to 15th May 1994 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. HoHoney-buzzard Pernis apivorus Near Moira (Go. Down), 15th May (potentially first record since 1965 for Northern Ireland). Black Ki...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1994
Comments Other With that wing-stretching wader (plate 43 in the March issue), the sixth 'Monthly marathon' has been won. It was identified as Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (48%), Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (36%) and seven other wader species. It was a Wood Sandpi...
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News and comment

01 June 1994
Comments News and comment WE WERE DISTURBED to learn that no Siberian Cranes Grus leucogeranus appeared at Bharatpur (Uttar Pradesh) in winter 1993/94. The famous Indian wildlife sanctuary has, it seems, lost one of its most famous birds, after a steady period of decline dating...
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Diary dates

01 June 1994
Comments Editorials 28th July to 12th August SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE ARTISTS' ANNUAL EXHIBITION (including display of winning entries in 'Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard Richardson Award' competitions). The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1. Open 10 a.m.-5 p...
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Reviews

01 June 1994
Comments Reviews Birds of Skokholm. By Michael Betts. Bioline, for the Dyfed Wildlife Trust, Cardiff, 1992. 74 pages; 19 line-drawings; 76 histograms and graphs. ISBN 0-9520432-0-3. Paperback £4.50. This book gives a concise, readable account of data gathered sin...
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Announcements

01 June 1994
Comments Editorials Go away with ' BB '. Provisional list of forthcoming overseas birding trips arranged in conjunction with the bird-tour company SUNBIRD: August 1994 Volga Delta February 1995 Israel February-March 1995 Thailand April 1995 Morocco April-May 1995 Slo...
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Letters

01 June 1994
Comments Letters Pelagic seabirds and marine predators. Some older readers of this journal must have experienced, as I did, a feeling of deja vu on reading the letter by Halle (1991) in which he wondered how seabirds survive the attentions of underwater predators when ...
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