Recent reports

01 March 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 16th January to 12th February 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Embo Pier (Highland), 19th January. Lesser Wh...
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News and comment

01 March 1995
Comments News and comment Strict regulations to improve the energy efficiency of new buildings. The introduction of carbon or energy taxes and VAT on domestic energy use. Subsidies to the nuclear-power industry to be phased out. Minimum efficiency standards to be applied to dom...
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Reviews

01 March 1995
Comments Reviews Birds of Iberia By Clive Finlayson & David Tomlinson. Mirador Publications, Fuengirola, 1993. 220 pages; over 150 colour plates; 19 line-drawings. ISBN 84-88127-08-1. £20.00. This colourful book will surely achieve the authors' commendable ho...
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Letters

01 March 1995
Comments Letters I was fascinated to read the reference, in the item on 'Identification by taste', to my great-grandfather, John Cordeaux (Brit. Birds 87: 447). I looked up his last publication, a revised list of British Birds belonging to the Humber District (1899), a...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1995
Comments Other With the closing date for January's entries (28th February) coming a week after this March issue will have been printed and five days after it will have been posted to subscribers, the identity of the bird on the overhead wire (plate 10) will be reveal...
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Looking Back

01 March 1995
Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in March 1970, D. I. M. Wallace made a thorough analysis of the 'First ten years of the Rarities Committee' (Brit. Birds 63: 113-128). One aspect in particular will have changed between the 1950s/60s and today: back in those days...
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