Recent reports

01 July 1999
Comments News and comment Wall Nature Reserve (Kent), 28th May. Lesser Scaup A. affinis Vane Farm RSPB (Tayside), 10th-12th May; Balgray Reservoir (Strathclyde), 29th May to 4th June; Saltholme Pools (Cleveland), 6th June. Great Snipe Gallinago media North Ronaldsay (Orkney), 1...
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Monthly marathon

01 July 1999
Comments Other We can, however, see the central tail feathers, which seem to be dark well down towards the base. We can also just discern the outer edge of the outer tail feather, which provides a hint of a clear-cut dark tip. Tail patterns are, however, never very o...
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News and Comment

01 July 1999
Comments News and comment There can be few British birders who have been birdwatching in the Mediterranean region who have not visited at least one set of saltpans ­ be they on the coast of Tunisia, Spain or France. Over the years, there have been some spectacular records for ...
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Rarities Committee Announcement

01 July 1999
Comments News and comment The annual meeting of the British Birds Rarities Committee was held at Blunham on 10th April 1999. The Secretary, Chairman and members were joined by Adam Rowlands, the incoming member, and Tony Marr, Chairman of the BOU Records Committee. Pete Ellis, ...
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Notes

01 July 1999
Comments Notes FEEDING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LITTLE EGRETS AND RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS On 1st January 1996, in Frogmore Creek, on the Kingsbridge Estuary, Devon, I was watching a tight group of eight Red-breasted Mergansers Mergus serrator feeding in shallow water, so...
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Red-necked Nightjar Revisited

01 July 1999
Comments Main paper The photograph of a Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis lifting its wings (plate 129) was accidentally omitted from the paper by Peter Lansdown (Brit. Birds 92: 194-196), where it was referred to in the text as `plate 46'. The photograph caption...
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Reviews

01 July 1999
Comments Reviews A useful and attractive little book, with photographs of 252 species, many of them common and well known, but many others certainly not. The Brown Hawk Owl Ninox scutulata and the Whiskered Yuhina Yuhina flavicollis are misidentified, but most photogra...
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Bird Illustratorof the Year 1999

01 July 1999
Comments Main paper We admired accurate and contained interesting compositions. We particularly enjoyed his view of House Martins, perched on lines high above the observer. This was one of six drawings which we put on one side to consider for The PJC Award (donated by Dav...
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