Recent reports

01 February 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 3rd-15th January 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Two long-stayers, on Tresco (Scilly) and North Slob (...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1995
Comments Other The ninth stage (Brit. Birds 87: plate 178) was correctly identified as a Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus by everyone except a handful of competitors (Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli and Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus were the only ot...
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News and comment

01 February 1995
Comments News and comment Although the Chinese say they acquired it from Eastern Europe, it appears that a particularly virulent virus that affects Old World Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus spread into Europe from China in about 1984. Within ten years it had probably killed over ...
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Reviews

01 February 1995
Comments Reviews In Search of the Cirl Bunting, by Andrew Cole, Devon. 1993. 127 pages; 26 colour plates; 20 black-and-white plates; 10 distribution maps; 4 line drawings; 10 tables; 3 graphs. ISBN O 9521242 0 3. £25.00. After years of casual birding, Andrew Cole...
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Letters

01 February 1995
Comments Letters Bernard Zonfrillo (1994) did well to remind us of the anniversary of the extinction of the Great Auk Pinguinns impennis. I have visited many of the world's museums and have examined specimens of the Great Auk and other extinct species, and just handlin...
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Notes

01 February 1995
Comments Notes During 1989-91, as part of a tape-luring programme off the northeast coast of England, the Durham Ringing Group caught some 210 European Storm-petrels Hydrobates pelagicus. Three of these had either a whole leg or at least most of the leg below the tar...
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Announcements

01 February 1995
Comments Editorials In consultation with the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, the editors of British Birds and Britain's Birds* have agreed that (1) documentation of the progression (decline or expansion) and current status of rare breeding birds in Britain and (2) the con...
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