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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The only British wintering grounds for Bean Geese Anser fabalis of the western race fabalis to have been permanently occupied for many years lie in the Yare Valley, east Norfolk. The discovery of some individuals carrying coded ...

World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar...

Mystery photographs

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Notes

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Letters

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A second Ring-billed Gull in Glamorgan

01 December 1973 Comments Main paper Less than three months after the first recorded British occurrence of the Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis, an adult at Blackpill, Swansea Bay, Glamorgan (Hume 1973), D. W. Evans and I found a first-summer bird of this species at the same locality. ...

Ring-billed Gull in Glamorgan

01 December 1973 Comments Main paper At 13.10 hours on 14th March 1973 I scanned a flock of several hundred gulls which were resting on the beach at Blackpill, Swansea Bay, Glamorgan, using a telescope from a range of about 250 metres. The flock, part of a regular high-tide gathering, con...

Shore Larks summering and possibly breeding in Scotland

01 December 1973 Comments Main paper Shore Larks Eremophila alpestris were seen in the Scottish Highlands in the summers of 1972 and 1973; as far as is known, there are no previous records of summering in Britain. P. J. Coe and P. A. M. Gepp were birdwatching on 6th July 1972 when at abou...

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland 1958–67

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