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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The only British wintering grounds for Bean Geese Anser fabalis of the western race fabalis to have been permanently occupied for many years lie in the Yare Valley, east Norfolk. The discovery of some individuals carrying coded ...

World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar...

Mystery photographs

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Notes

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Letters

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Editorial

01 January 1980 Comments Editorials At a time when price increases are an all too familiar part of life, it is very pleasing to us and to Macmillan Journals Ltd that, due to the doubling of the number of subscribers in the past two years, the basic subscription price of British Birds can...

Obituary: David Armitage Bannerman OBE, MA, ScD, Hon.LLD,FRSE (1886-1979)

01 January 1980 Comments Obituaries David Bannerman, who died on 6th April in his 93rd year, was one of the most distinguished ornithologists of his time. His interest in natural history was already strong at the age of eight and, as a small boy, he declared his ambition to make ornithol...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 1978

01 January 1980 Comments Main paper The primary function of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel is to provide a safe store for confidential information, so that this is collected in one file for posterity. In the past, details of important records have been lost forever through the deadis of t...

Cape May Warbler: new to Britain and Ireland

01 January 1980 Comments Open Access Paisley Glen comprises an area of ornamental parkland and mixed woodland on the outskirts of Paisley, about 15 km from Glasgow. While birdwatching there at 14.00 GMT on 17th June 1977, TB's attention was attracted by an unfamiliar song in an overgrown ...

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