Recent reports

01 November 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 15th September to 12th October 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Rostellan (Co. Cork), 9th-12fh Oct...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Recent reports

01 November 1995 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 18th September to 15th October 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus (Cornwall), 13th-14th Octob...
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News and comment

01 November 1995 Comments News and comment We mentioned last month (Brit. Birds 88: 490) that a way had been found of securing money for conservation from the National Lottery through the National Heritage Memorial Fund. News has now reached us that a grant from this fund of £75,147 has been g...
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Reviews

01 November 1995 Comments Reviews Irish Birds. By David Cabot. (HarperCollins, London, 1995. 224 pages. ISBN 0-00-220023-6. Paperback £7.99) The common Irish birds (143 species) each receive one page, including one or two paintings and around 150-200 words of text, covering habitat, b...
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Requests

01 November 1995 Comments Editorials For possible publication in future papers in BB, we welcome colour transparencies, colour prints or black-and-white prints of the following: Ruddy Shelducks Tadoma ferruginea in Britain Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus American Pluvialis domini...
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Announcements

01 November 1995 Comments Editorials Entries are invited for the fifth annual award (see accounts of the first, second, third and fourth awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173; 88: 218-220), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Britain and Ireland which pub...
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