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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

Announcement

01 September 1978 Comments Editorials The Ornithological Society of the Middle East At the annual general meeting of the Ornithological Society of Turkey on 27th April 1978, a resolution was passed changing its name to 'The Ornithological Society of the Middle East'. The geogr...

Letters

01 September 1978 Comments Letters Great Blue and aberrant Grey Herons I was interested to learn of the two observations of melanistic Grey Herons Ardea cinerea (Brit. Birds 70: 76, 345-346), as well as the one seen in the Camargue, France, by Dr J. G. and Dr P. F. Harrison and ...

Reviews

01 September 1978 Comments Reviews Wildlife Sound Recording. By John B. Fisher. Pelham Books, London, 1977. 173 pages; 16 black-and-white photographs; 17 figures. £5-95 Many would-be sound recordists are discouraged by the thought that the subject is too technical. This book ex...

Notes

01 September 1978 Comments Notes Bittern apparently feeding at night by artificial light At 23.30 GMT on 23rd January 1976, while walking along a canal at Kingsmead, Ware, Hertfordshire, I noticed something moving under a sodium lamp a little ahead of me. On further investigat...

Mystery photographs

01 September 1978 Comments Main paper lt is late August and there are Ruffs Philomachus pugnax and Wood Sandpipers Tringa glareola with the other regular waders at the local sewage-farm. Creeping about 'below' a Dunlin Calidris alpina, there is a much smaller bird, with noticeably dull plu...

Personalities. 11. Dr Stephanie Tyler

01 September 1978 Comments Main paper If Stephanie visited the United States (from where we write), she would undoubtedly be dubbed a 'ball of fire'. This phrase aptly describes this remarkable and personable young woman. Nurtured in Lincolnshire, Stephanie moved a short distance south to ...

Nesting Black-shouldered Kites in Portugal

01 September 1978 Comments Main paper The Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus is known as a European breeding species only from the southwestern quarter of the Iberian peninsula. England (1963) was the first to supply a properly documented account of nesting in Portugal, where it had lo...

Breeding ecology of the Merlin in Northumberland

01 September 1978 Comments Main paper Only meagre information has been published on the Merlin Falco columbarius in Britain since the pioneer study by Rowan (1921-22); but the species is widely thought to have been decreasing since at least the turn of the century (Parslow 1967), and is kn...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

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Mystery photographs

Personalities. 11. Dr Stephanie Tyler

Nesting Black-shouldered Kites in Portugal

Breeding ecology of the Merlin in Northumberland

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