News and Comment

01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...
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Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...
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Recent reports

01 November 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th September to 17th October 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. SemipaJmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus First-winter plover showing some diagnostic features of this species at Bally...
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1993 Comments Other No trap, it was a Little Gull, photographed by Axel Halley in Germany in October 1988 (SCORE 6). The first person to achieve a score of 500 will win a birding trip with SUNBIRD to Africa, Asia or North America.223. Sixth 'Monthly marathon', using new r...
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News and Comment

01 November 1993 Comments News and comment NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO, criticism of the Forestry Commission was almost a daily event. The design and, very often, the location of commercial plantations seemed to work against the best interests of birds and other wildlife, and various aspects of fores...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1993 Comments Main paper The fairly long neck, pot belly, short and slightly decurved bill, and scaly upperparts readily suggest that our mystery bird (plate 217 on page 566) is a Calidris wader, or perhaps a Ruff Philomachus pugnax. Discerning the size of a lone wader in the ...
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Announcements

01 November 1993 Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report. Entries are invited for the third annual award (see account of the first and second awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Britain ...
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