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01 April 1998 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 16th February to 15th March 1998. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Bonaparte's Gull Larus philadelphia Adult and first-winter at The Lough (Co...

Recent BBRC Decisions

01 April 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...

News and comment

01 April 1998 Comments News and comment ...

Mystery Photographs

01 April 1998 Comments Main paper "Mixed flocks of Dalmatian Pelicans Pelecanus crispus and White Pelicans P. onocrotalus do occur, but the two are most often seen separately, and a typical view is of a small party of one or the other species in flight overhead. Mystery photograph A, t...

Short Reviews

01 April 1998 Comments Reviews ...

Monthly marathon

01 April 1998 Comments Other The headless, seaweed-frequenting wheatear Oenanthe was named as Northern O. oenanthe (79%), Isabelline O. isabeUina (17%) and Desert O. deserti (4%). The majority choice was correct, this Northern Wheatear having been photographed in Scilly in October...

Obituary: Colin Tubbs (1937-1997)

01 April 1998 Comments Obituaries With Colin Tubbs' death from cancer on 17th October 1997, the wildlife conservation movement and ornithology have lost one of their most effective campaigners. Born in Portsmouth, Colin left Portsmouth Grammar School aged 16, taking a number of short-t...

Redhead in Nottinghamshire: new to Britain and Ireland

01 April 1998 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A male Redhead Aythya americana with Common Pochards A. ferina at Bleasby, Nottinghamshire, during 8th-27th March 1997 was the first record of this North American duck in Britain & Ireland.A chance conversation with Simon Roberts on Friday...

Letters

01 April 1998 Comments Letters 'News and comment' (Brit. Birds 90: 581) revealed birders' troubles with Back-packers' Syndrome. The cause--being overloaded with technical equipment--is peculiar to our hobby and is, therefore, a new condition. If we are to be welcomed into the group ...

Notes

01 April 1998 Comments Notes On 30th August 1993, at Eavestone Lake, North Yorkshire, I observed a family of two adult and two juvenile Common Coots Fulica atra feeding at the edge of a small clump of reeds. Between 08.45 and 09.30 BST, a Stoat Alustela erminea made repeated attem...

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