Recent reports

01 March 1998
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 5th January to 15th February 1998. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis Female, North Slob (Co. Wexford), 25th January...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 March 1998
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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Monthly marathon

01 March 1998
Comments Other The bunting Emberiza {Brit. Birds 90: plate 208) was named as Cirl E. cirlus (52%), Yellowhammer E. citrinella (29%), Rustic E. rustica (10%), Pine E. leucocephalos (5%) and Yellow-breasted E. aureola (4%). It was a female Cirl Bunting, photographed in...
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Announcements

01 March 1998
Comments Editorials Most bird-photographers welcome the advent of digital-imaging technology and the opportunity it provides to remove unwanted blemishes from a photograph. Such blemishes include obtrusive out-of-focus vegetation or similar features which obstruct the mai...
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Letters

01 March 1998
Comments Letters The lead story in November's 'News and comment' on 'Kittiwake versus Great Skua' (Brit. Birds 90: 530) suggested that predation by Great Skuas (Bonxies) Catharacta skua on Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla is a recent phenomenon. Not so! Bonxies killing and ...
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Looking Back

01 March 1998
Comments Other Twenty-five years ago: 'The name of Witherby has been inseparably linked with British Birds since the journal's foundation in 1907. H. F. Witherby, who conceived the original idea and secured the support of his fellow ornithologists for its launching, ...
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Notes

01 March 1998
Comments Notes In April 1988, at Ponta do Piedade, near Lagos, in the Algarve, Portugal, Ted Smith and I found a breeding colony of Cattle Egrets Bubulcus ibis on two islets about 75 m high and situated only about 50-100 m from the headland. All the nests were in vir...
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