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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. ...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

01 November 2003 Comments Main paper This is the forty-fifth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of the records which have been assessed by BBRC for the year 2002, along with additional, outstanding records from previous years. To enhance the over...

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01 August 1999 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers 7th June to 5th July 1999. The text and photographs relate to unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris One 16 km south of Looe (Cornwall), 19th June, photographed...

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01 August 1999 Comments News and comment We all know the story of the toxic sludge that spilled from the Aznalcollar mine in Spain on 25th April 1998. Spanish conservationists claim that some 70,000 birds have been heavily contaminated. There is still uncertainty about continuing environmenta...

Monthly marathon

01 August 1999 Comments Other The affinities of the dumpy, small-billed bird depicted in June's photograph (plate 104, repeated here as plate 159) may not have been immediately obvious to some readers, the bird perhaps bearing a resemblance to a dove Streptopelia or even a lark (Al...

Reviews

01 August 1999 Comments Reviews By Lars Svensson & Peter J. Grant; illustrated by Killian Mullarney & Dan Zetterstrøm; translated by David Christie. HarperCollins, London, 1999. 400 pages; 3,500 paintings; about 700 distribution maps. ISBN 0-00-219728-6. Hardback £24.99. We...

Letters

01 August 1999 Comments Letters I completely agree with the comments of Dr J. T. R. Sharrock (Brit. Birds 92: 62-63) and Anthony McGeehan (Brit. Birds 92: 212-213), and so do many others whom I know. I should, however, like to remind Mr McGeehan that, although Ireland is indeed a che...

Rare breeding birdsin theUnited Kingdomin 1997

01 August 1999 Comments Main paper MALCOLM OGILVIE AND THE RARE BREEDING BIRDS PANEL ABSTRACT With this report, the Rare Breeding Birds Panel completes 25 years of annual reporting on the status of Britain's rarest breeding species. The first report of the Panel covered the year 1973 an...

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