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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Recent reports

01 April 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records December was the mildest for many years, dominated by westerly weather from the Atlantic. An anticyclone which persisted to the south of Britain caused depressions to move across on...
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News and comment

01 April 1975 Comments News and comment Waterway vandalism It was with considerable alarm that naturalists learned recently that the Severn-Trent Water Authority proposed to introduce a new byelaw compelling owners of lands fronting a river to cut down all trees, shrubs, reeds and ot...
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Letters

01 April 1975 Comments Letters Effects of agricultural change on birds I have found the correspondence between Derek Barber, and Dr R. K. Murton and N. J. Westwood {Brit. Birds, 67: 395-396, 485-487), of considerable interest, for I strongly suspect that hedgerows have,...
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Reviews

01 April 1975 Comments Reviews Ocean Wanderers. The migratory sea birds of the world. By Ronald M. Lockley. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1974. 168 pages; 9 colour and 39 black-and-white photographs; 22 maps. £4.50. This picture is painted on a broad canvas. The author...
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