Recent reports

01 April 2009
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early February 2009 to early March 2009. Headlines In a quiet period, the highlights included an Ivory Gull and an early Great Spotted Cuckoo in Co. Cork, the returning Pacific Dive...
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News and comment

01 April 2009
Comments News and comment Climate change is already having a detectable impact on birds across Europe. This is the message from a group of scientists who have created the world's first indicator of the impacts of climate change on wildlife at a continental scale. `We hear a lot...
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Reviews

01 April 2009
Comments Reviews CONSIDER THE BIRDS: WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO By Colin Tudge. Allen Lane, London, 2008. 482 pages; numerous line-drawings; five text figures, two as pull-outs. ISBN 978-1-846-14097-6. Hardback, £25.00. This was a difficult book to review. It must ...
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Notes

01 April 2009
Comments Notes Morph ratio of Eleonora's Falcon of Sicily Corn Crake pair-bonding and nesting behaviour A precssion by a Common Snipe and its chicks Great Black-backed Gull killing a rival and stealing mate Red-rumped Swallow nesting i...
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Recent reports

01 September 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals with June 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. It begins with two remarkable reports of White-billed Divers Gavia adamsii; one in breeding plumage on Uppe...
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News and comment

01 September 1971
Comments News and comment Oceanic dustbin ? The ill-starred July voyage of the Stella Maris gave wide publicity to a subject that has worried conservationists for some time, namely the dumping of industrial effluents at sea. The Stella Maris, a Dutch vessel, carried 600 tons of ch...
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