Recent reports

01 August 1999
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers 7th June to 5th July 1999. The text and photographs relate to unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris One 16 km south of Looe (Cornwall), 19th June, photographed...
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News and Comment

01 August 1999
Comments News and comment We all know the story of the toxic sludge that spilled from the Aznalcollar mine in Spain on 25th April 1998. Spanish conservationists claim that some 70,000 birds have been heavily contaminated. There is still uncertainty about continuing environmenta...
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Monthly marathon

01 August 1999
Comments Other The affinities of the dumpy, small-billed bird depicted in June's photograph (plate 104, repeated here as plate 159) may not have been immediately obvious to some readers, the bird perhaps bearing a resemblance to a dove Streptopelia or even a lark (Al...
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Reviews

01 August 1999
Comments Reviews By Lars Svensson & Peter J. Grant; illustrated by Killian Mullarney & Dan Zetterstrøm; translated by David Christie. HarperCollins, London, 1999. 400 pages; 3,500 paintings; about 700 distribution maps. ISBN 0-00-219728-6. Hardback £24.99. We...
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Letters

01 August 1999
Comments Letters I completely agree with the comments of Dr J. T. R. Sharrock (Brit. Birds 92: 62-63) and Anthony McGeehan (Brit. Birds 92: 212-213), and so do many others whom I know. I should, however, like to remind Mr McGeehan that, although Ireland is indeed a che...
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Announcements

01 August 1999
Comments Editorials Subscribers can claim a 10% reduction on the following overseas birdwatching trips in the year 2000 with the bird-tour company, `Sunbird'. 12th-20th February NORTHERN ISRAEL with Sean McMinn and Hadoram Shirihai, for winter specialities such as Imperia...
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What, no running water?

01 August 1999
Comments Main paper I am standing on a minor road in the middle of farmland typical of central England. Along one side of the road there is a bit of a ditch, with some scattered remains of a hedgerow, a tree here and there, and a barbed-wire fence, but mostly an open boun...
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Request for information

01 June 1968
Comments Editorials Survey of Stonechats in Wales.--A survey of the breeding population of the Stonechat Saxicola torquata in Wales is being carried out during 1968. County recorders are acting as local organisers in most areas (see list in Brit. Birds, 61: 191) and observer...
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Recent reports

01 June 1968
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with April 1968 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. A few May reports have been included where they seem particularly relevant to Ap...
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