Recent reports

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid August to mid September 2004. Canvasback Aythya valisineria Private site (Kent), 15th August. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca Chew Valley Lake (Somerset), 20th August to 1st September. Zino's/Fea's Petrel Pterod...
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News and Comment

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Crake Crex crex is a familiar, if depressing, story. Mechanical mowing and the early harvesting of crops, before the end of the breeding season, have had a catastrophic effect on Corn Crakes in Britain and across much of western Eu...
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Conservation research news

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment One of the assumptions that scientists often make about territorial birds is that individuals will choose the best breeding sites available. Consequently, when populations are small, every individual occupies a high-quality site but, as populations grow, ...
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The Carl Zeiss Award 2004

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper One of the difficulties for the judging panel of the Carl Zeiss Award, for photographs of rarities assessed by the BBRC during the preceding year, is that we have to think of something new to say in our report each year. This year it was easy, in fact it ...
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AudouinÕs Gull: new to Britain

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A second-summer Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii was found at Dungeness, Kent, on 5th May 2003. It lingered in the area for the remainder of the day, commuting between the shore and nearby pools on the RSPB reserve. It was present again the followi...
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Recent reports

01 August 1992 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th June to 17th July 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 15th July. Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis 30, Cape Clear I...
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News and comment

01 August 1992 Comments News and comment French disgrace. On behalf of the RSPB, ME took part in a protest in early May against the spring shooting of migrant Turtle Doves Streptopelia turtur in Medoc, France. The protest was led by the Ligue Française pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LP...
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Letters

01 August 1992 Comments Letters Little Grebe apparently imprinted on female Mallard. With reference to the note on a juvenile Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis apparently imprinted on a female Mallard Anas platyrhynchos [Brit. Birds 82: 116), might it not be that the Mallard h...
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Announcements

01 August 1992 Comments Editorials Books in British Bird Shop. The following books have been added to the list this month: Brucker, Gosler & Heryet: The Birds of Oxfordshire. Trodd & Kramer: The Birds of Bedfordshire. For all your book orders, please use the British BirdSho...
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