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British Birds – June 2007

01 June 2007 Comments Latest issues ...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2003 and 2004

01 June 2007 Comments Main paper ...

A survey of breeding Black-necked Grebes in the UK: 1973–2004

01 June 2007 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 June 2007 Comments Notes Slavonian Grebe breeding with Great Crested Grebe Puffin with exceptionally heavy tick infestation Eurasian Sparrowhawk attacking Soprano Pipistrelle bat Reed Warbler apparently using willow-bark pieces in nest construction ...

Grey-cheeked and Bicknell's Thrushes: taxonomy, identification and the British and Irish records

01 January 1996 Comments Main paper The BOU Records Committee has recently accepted the taxonomic split of the mainly Nearctic Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus into two species: a restricted Grey-cheeked Thrush comprising the races minimus and aliciae and the monotypic Bicknell's Thr...

Long-toed Stint in Cornwall: the first record for the Western Palearctic

01 January 1996 Comments Open Access ABSTRACT A wader at Marazion Marsh, Cornwall, on 7th and 8th June 1970, originally identified as a Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla, has now been accepted as a Long-toed Stint C. subminuta, the first record of this species in the Western Palearctic. ...

Monthly Marathon

01 January 1996 Comments Other The answers sent in for the first three hurdles can now be revealed. September's dozing wader (Brit. Birds 88: plate 126) was named as White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (36%), Western Sandpiper C. mauri (24%), Little Stint C. minuta (23%), Se...

Rarities Committee News And Announcements

01 January 1996 Comments Editorials For the past 19 years, the British Birds Rarities Committee has, for each rare species recorded during the year, shown (a) the total number of individuals recorded up to the year 1957, (b) the total number of individuals recorded during the period from...

Recent reports

01 January 1996 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 13th November to 17th December 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Immature, perhaps first-winter...

News And Comment

01 January 1996 Comments News and comment After being held hostage for nearly four months by the guerilla group La Cordinadora de la Guerilla 'Simon Bolivar', BB subscriber Timothy Cowley was rescued on 8th December by a special antikidnapping unit of the Colombian police. Welcome back Tim! Ev...

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