Recent reports

01 November 1997
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 15th September to 12th October 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Rostellan (Co. Cork), 9th-12fh Oct...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 1997
Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Reviews

01 March 1951
Comments Reviews The Moult-migration of the Sheld-Duck. By R. A. H. Coombes (Ibis, Vol. 92, pp. 405-418). In this paper Mr. Coombes describes work on the Sheld-Duck, which he has carried on as occasion offered over a number of years and intensively throughout the summer o...
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Notes

01 March 1951
Comments Notes PARTLY as a result of a request for such information (antea, vol. xliii, p. 223) we have received a certain number of records of summer visitors spending the winter of 1949-50 in the British Isles. We have also received several records of species seen un...
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Obituary: E. W. Hendy

01 March 1951
Comments Obituaries ERNEST WILLIAM HENDY, who died in his 78th year on November 1st, 1950, brought a poet's mind and a classical training to the study of birds and wild life, and his approach bore fruit in a rare degree of insight into Nature, matched by an originality and ...
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Sheld-Duck On The Tay Estuary

01 March 1951
Comments Main paper progress has been made in unravelling the tangled life-history of Sheld-duck (Tadorna tadoma). Hoogerheide and Kraak (1942) have shown that many Western European birds assemble in July on the great tidal flats behind the islands fringing the Dutch and Ger...
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