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01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Irish seabird islands

01 February 1980 Comments Main paper Although Ireland is not large in area, the mainland and associated islands have a coastline of over 4,000 km. There are just over 1,000 islands of a significant size (i.e. large enough to appear on the standard 1:126,720 Ordnance Survey maps in us...

Ireland's winter visitors and passage migrants

01 February 1980 Comments Main paper As a result of the small size of the country, its position on the western fringe of the European land-mass, its relatively uniform climate and the scarcity of deciduous woodland, Ireland's breeding avifauna is comparatively impoverished. A glance at Th...

Irish bird sites

01 February 1980 Comments Main paper This list of 51 Irish ornithological sites is intended to give an indication of the types of habitat and species encountered at areas chosen for their variety and geographical distribution; it is not an attempt to catalogue the localities most imp...

Topography and habitats of Ireland

01 February 1980 Comments Main paper Ireland lies on the European continental shelf, directly north of Portugal and west of the Netherlands. It was separated from Britain in the early Postglacial period and today the channel between the two islands is 22 km wide in the north and 76 km in ...

Editorial

01 February 1980 Comments Editorials Periodically, we shall be devoting the major part of an entire issue to the birds and ornithology of a single geographical region. This number of British Birds is the first, and we felt it appropriate to start by featuring the closest neighbour to Brit...

Ornithology in Ireland

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Bird Photographers: Richard T. Mills

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