Recent reports

01 May 1999 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers 8th March to 4th April 1999. The text and photographs relate to unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Walton Reservoir (Surrey), 16th March; Stowbridge Pit (Norfolk)...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1999 Comments Other The species in the photograph (plate 32, repeated here as plate 74) is clearly a wader, and its general shape and coloration shows that it is either a Calidris or a Tringa sandpiper. The lack of patterning and its dull colour tells us that it is in win...
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News and Comment

01 May 1999 Comments News and comment We have previously drawn attention (Brit. Birds 91: 206) to the dramatic decline in breeding-bird populations on the North Staffordshire Moors, no doubt largely linked to agricultural changes that have included overgrazing and drainage. It had been hop...
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Reviews

01 May 1999 Comments Reviews Global warming might destroy tundra worldwide within the next century. There are many pleasing illustrations by the first author; diagrams, however, are frequently so complex and printed so small that they fail to make their points clearly, and typogra...
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Letters

01 May 1999 Comments Letters THE COMMERCIALISATION OF ORNITHOLOGY It seems strange that a seven-line suggestion by Ian Moorhouse (Brit. Birds 91: 330) that an increase in the average age of observers might help to explain a decline in the numbers of some common birds should be con...
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Notes

01 May 1999 Comments Notes THREE PIED FLYCATCHERS AND A COMMON REDSTART DEAD IN SAME NESTBOX On 24th May 1995, while checking nestboxes at Bailey Einon wood, near Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire, I discovered that one box contained three male Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca a...
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Recent reports

01 June 1969 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers April 1969 and all dates refer to that month. An annual feature of April (and, more particularly, May) is the occurrence of vagrants from further south in Europe, including...
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Miscellaneous

01 June 1969 Comments Editorials Colour-marked Sandwich Terns In connection with the final year of a study of post-fledging dispersal in the Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis, a large number of chicks have been marked with white and red colour rings; some have also been given two-colour ...
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News and comment

01 June 1969 Comments News and comment Maltese birds There was a time, not so long ago, when the average British birdwatcher confined his attention to the birds of his own islands. In this affluent age, however, with faster (though not cheaper!) transport, an increasing number travel abroad, e...
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