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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

Raptor migration across the Strait of Messina, southern Italy

01 April 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The Strait of Messina, at the foot of Italy, is a major migration flyway for many raptors and other species, yet very little has been published on the numbers of birds passing through the area each year.The results of spring counts over the fi...

Looking back

01 April 2001 Comments Other Fifty years ago: `LARGE NUMBERS OF BLACKTAILED GODWITS IN HANTS. – With reference to the note [Brit. Birds 43: 128] on large numbers of Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) at Poole Harbour, Dorset, in March and April, 1949, Dr. C. Suffern writes t...

Historical and taxonomic review of the Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides complex

01 April 2001 Comments Main paper The Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides is now generally regarded as comprising three subspecies: L. g. glaucoides, which breeds in Greenland, L. g. kumlieni (`Kumlien's Gull'), which breeds mostly on Baffin Island, and L. g. t...

Identification and taxonomy of Marmora's Warblers

01 April 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A major new book on the warblers of the genus Sylvia (Shirihai et al. 2001) will treat the taxonomy and identification of this intriguing group of passerines in greater depth than has ever been attempted before. Here, we present a sho...