News and Comment

01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...
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Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...
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Corrections

01 December 1997 Comments Editorials Line 1, 'Brit. Birds 90: 1-22' should read '90: 25-62'. Tetrad Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Essex Price given as £17.50 should read £15.95. Fig. 8. Juvenile Wilson's Phalarope. Artist was Andy Wilson (not Stephen Mawby). Line 29, '31st September' s...
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Recent reports

01 December 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 13th October to 9th November 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Great White Egret Egretta alba Cape Clear Island, 26th October, same at Sc...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 December 1997 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...
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Letter

01 December 1997 Comments Letters In his letter on the hybridisation of Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis and Whiteheaded Ducks O. leucocephala, Dr David Harper {Brit. Birds 90: 325-327) unfortunately chose to refer to the expansion into Europe of Syrian Woodpeckers Dendrocopos syriacus i...
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