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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

Recent Reports

01 February 1979 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers November; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to November. The anticyclonic weather continued through November, producing a mild southerly or westerly airstrea...

News and Comment

01 February 1979 Comments News and comment National Cage Bird Show The 35th National Exhibition of Cage and Aviary Birds, held from 1st to 3rd December 1978, filled the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace to capacity. This annual show is the largest exhibition of cage birds held in Britain a...

Requests

01 February 1979 Comments Editorials Leach's Petrels in autumn 1978 Large numbers of Leach's Petrels Oceanodroma leucorrhoa were recorded in Britain, particularly on the Merseyside coast, in autumn 1978. Ali observations in Britain and Ireland during the period 1st September to 30...

Letters

01 February 1979 Comments Letters The use of flash in bird photography I sympathise with R. A. Hume (Brit. Birds 71 : 422) regarding the indiscriminate use of flash on diurnal birds in instances where the background cannot be properly illuminated and a false nocturnal effect is created...

Reviews

01 February 1979 Comments Reviews Wild Geese. By M. A. Ogilvie. T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1978, 350 pages; 16 colour plates; 45 black-and-white illustrations; 40 maps; 41 tables. £7.80. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in wildfowl, esp...

Notes

01 February 1979 Comments Notes Opportunistic predation of Manx Shearwaters by fox On 30th June 1977, while walking along the coastal path near Martins Haven, Dyfed, I came across several groups of black and white feathers. All appeared to have been snapped of...

Obituary: Jeffery Graham Harrison, OBE, MB, BChir(1922-1978)

01 February 1979 Comments Obituaries Jeffery Harrison's sudden and untimely death on ist September 1978 came as a thunderbolt particularly to his friends, and to anybody who had come into contact with him--largely because of the tremendously evident vitality of the man. So ...

Mystery photographs: Red-breasted Flycatcher

01 February 1979 Comments Main paper The rounded head, large staring eye, cocked tail and stance of the passerine in plate 9 (shown reduced here) instantly suggest a flycatcher (Muscicapidae). This individual lacks the streaked breast and forehead of a Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa st...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

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Obituary: Jeffery Graham Harrison, OBE, MB, BChir(1922-1978)

Mystery photographs: Red-breasted Flycatcher

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