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Monthly marathon

01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...

Recent reports

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...

News and comment

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...

Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1995

01 November 1996 Comments Main paper After another year of excellent co-operation with many people, the British Birds Rarities Committee presents a comprehensive Report. The BBRC may be perceived as isolated and remote, but it is part of a network involving individual observers, county re...

Guidelines for rarities committees

01 July 1993 Comments Editorials The international meeting of rarities committees held on Texel, Netherlands, during 12th-20th October 1991, agreed a set of guidelines for rarities committees. The British delegate at this meeting, representing the British Birds Rarities Committee...

Rarities Committee news and announcements

01 July 1993 Comments Editorials Committee membership is listed on the inside front cover each month, and on the back of the title page. In the absence of further nominations {Brit. Birds 85: 330-333), Andy Stoddart started his term of membership on 1st April 1993, replacing John Marc...

The Red Kite in Wales: setting the record straight

01 July 1993 Comments Main paper It has been generally accepted for the past 80 years that the British population of Red Kites Milvus milvus reached its lowest ebb about 1905, and then recovered, slowly and hesitantly, under protection. There is now good reason to suppose that in fact...

Seasonal reports: Autumn 1992

01 July 1993 Comments News and comment July's weather was cloudy and wet, and rather warm, particularly in the second half, and this continued into the firsl ten days of August Generally, August was unsettled and windy, and very wet: in fact, the wettest over England and Wales since 1956 an...

Letters

01 July 1993 Comments Letters Naw Herring Gull taxonomy. The recent editorial decision (Brit. Birds 86: 1-2) to adopt splitting Herring Gull into three species L. argentatus, L. cachinnans and L. armenicus, although in line with current trends in avian taxonomy, seems highly c...

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