Recent Reports

01 July 1978
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers April and the first part of May; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to April. Spring followed the trend of the past few years, with temperatures remaining bel...
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News and Comment

01 July 1978
Comments News and comment Fair Isle news As recently as last December, we mentioned that Fair Isle Bird Observatory had a problem: namely the need to raise £7,000 quickly to bring the observatory buildings up to the standards required by strict new fire regulations (Br...
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Request

01 July 1978
Comments Editorials Colour-ringed Purple Sandpipers and Dotterels During the 1978 Cambridge Norwegian Expedition, Purple Sandpipers Calidris maritima and Dotterels Charadrius morinellus will be colour-ringed. The expedition leader, John Innes, has asked that detai...
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Announcements

01 July 1978
Comments Editorials Expeditions We shall shortly be starting a new, periodic feature dealing with scientific expeditions by British and Irish ornithologists. We hope that this will include notice of forthcoming expeditions, perhaps including invitations to potenti...
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Letters

01 July 1978
Comments Letters Diving methods of Great Northern and Black-throated Divers On inland waters, I have noticed that Great Northern Divers Gavia immer always slither under slowly when diving, whereas Black-throated G. arctica jump upwards slightly before they dive...
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Notes

01 July 1978
Comments Notes Marsh Harrier apparently hunting over the sea On 19th November 1976, off the Nestos delta, northeast Greece, I saw a Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus flying low over the water. It joined a group of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus and Black-h...
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Mystery photographs

01 July 1978
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery bird should have presented few problems: there was a simple choice between Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula and Little Ringed Plover C. dubius. The main characteristics of the Ringed Plover are a broad white wing-stripe...
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Breeding Bitterns in Britain

01 July 1978
Comments Main paper The Bittern Botaurus stellaris was the first of six former breeding birds to recolonise Britain this century, preceding the next, the Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, by 35 years. This paper draws together for the first time the rather scattered referenc...
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