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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...

Migrant Ring Ouzels at a stopover site on the South Downs

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper Ring Ouzels Turdus torquatus from both the British and the Scandinavian populations regularly occur on passage in lowland England, where the species does not breed. Although Durman (1976) analysed the timing of this passage through Britain using bird-o...

Monthly marathon

01 June 1993 Comments Other STAGE 1 (plate 18): Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (71%), Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (10%), Greater Yellowlegs T. melanoleuca (4%) and Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (3%), with 2 % or less each for 12 other species. STAGE 2 (plate 32): Leach's Sto...

Bird Photograph of the Year

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper On 3rd February, the four judges faced a total of 120 colour transparencies submitted by 44 top bird-photographers, knowing that by the end of the day there had to be one winner. A daunting task, but, after six enthralling hours of study, discussion an...

Mystery photographs

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper No prizes for identifying last month's photograph (plate 45, repeated here) as an immature gull. With no other species for comparison, its size is difficult to judge, so we must use plumage and structural characters to narrow the field. The combination...

From the Rarities Committee's files

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper A report of a Black Stork. On previous occasions, this series has featured high-quality rare-bird-rccord submissions. The reader ought not to form the impression that all of the records received by the BBRC are up to that Standard. The description that...

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Monthly marathon

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Looking Back

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1995

Migrant Ring Ouzels at a stopover site on the South Downs

Monthly marathon

Bird Photograph of the Year

Mystery photographs

From the Rarities Committee's files

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