Recent reports

01 June 1996
Comments News and comment Compiled by Bary Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 16th April to 12th May 1996. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus Snettisham (Norfolk), 1st-12th May. Near Broad-bille...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1996
Comments Other Plate 24 obviously showed a pratincole Glareola, but which one? Entrants decided on Oriental G. maldivarum (50%), Collared G. pratincole (27%) or Black-winged G. nordmanni (23%). The most-chosen species was the right answer. This Oriental Pratinco...
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News and comment

01 June 1996
Comments News and comment The Hellenic Ornithological Society is currently revising the Greek Important Bird Areas (IBA) list. Information from foreign birdwatchers is extremely valuable for this work and for bird conservation in general. All birdwatchers who have visited Greec...
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Diary dates

01 June 1996
Comments Editorials HISTORY. Conference on 'Species history: introductions and extinctions since the Ice Age'. SNH Conference Centre, Battleby, Perth. Details from Mrs M. Richards, University of St Andrews, Institute for Environmental History, St John's House, South Stree...
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Reviews

01 June 1996
Comments Reviews Palearctic Birds: a checklist of the birds of Europe, North Africa and Asia north of the foothills of the Himalayas. By Mark Beaman.  Harrier Publications, Stonyhurst, 1994. 168 pages. ISBN 0-9523391-0-2. Paperback £12.50. The core of this book, ...
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Notes

01 June 1996
Comments Notes With the acceptance of the male Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata at Filey, North Yorkshire, in May 1992 (Brit. Birds 87: 554; Ibis 136: 254), following the reassessment and subsequent rejection of the previously accepted records (Brit. Birds 83:...
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Looking Back

01 June 1996
Comments Other One hundred and fifty years ago: 'Avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta. The avocet is occasionally killed in spring, but is now a rare bird in Norfolk. It was formerly not uncommon, and nested habitually in some of the marshy parts of the county. It is said ...
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European news

01 June 1996
Comments Main paper All records have been accepted by the relevant national rarities committee, unless marked by an asterisk*. Records are included only if they have been sent by the official national representative, each of whom is listed at the end of this report, or ha...
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Letters

01 August 1963
Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...
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