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01 January 2006 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early October to early December 2005. ...

BBRC says goodbye to birders' favourites

01 January 2006 Comments Editorials The number of records that the BBRC assesses has grown rapidly, while at the same time some observers are becoming less willing to submit descriptions for species that they feel are `less' rare. Following a consultation with County Recorders and record...

News and Comment

01 January 2006 Comments News and comment As 2005 drew to a close, the virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza was reported in poultry in the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine. This was the fourth country in Europe to report bird flu, following outbreaks in October in Romania (dead Mute Swans Cygnus...

Letters

01 January 2006 Comments Letters I refer to Steve Percival's article on this subject (Percival 2005). By the end of 2004, 16,534 wind turbines were installed in Germany, which provides enormous scope for research on the potential impacts to bird populations. Most of this research has ...

Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom

01 January 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In 1997, the Avian Population Estimates Panel (APEP) published its first collation of British and UK bird population estimates (Stone et al. 1997). This paper provides the first review of those estimates, drawing on information available prior...

The Northern Bullfinch invasion of autumn 2004

01 January 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A record invasion of `Northern Bullfinches' Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula occurred in Britain in autumn 2004. It also affected many other parts of Europe with birds being recorded as far afield as Iceland, Ireland, Italy and Bulgaria. As...

British Birds – January 2006

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Requests

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials For forthcoming papers, colour transparencies or colour prints of the following species are needed: Saker Falco cherrug, Lanner F. biarmicus, Gyr F. rusticolus and Barbary Falcons F. pelegrinoides. Greater Sand Charadrius leschenaultii, Lesser Sand C. ...

Announcements

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials The key to the first part of the solution to the puzzle on page ix in the December 1996 issue (pictures repeated here) was the phrase 'brainpower initially', as the word BRAINPOWER contains the initial letters, in order, of each species illustrated: Bl...

Rarities Committee News and Announcements

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials Peter Clement retired in rotation at the end of March 1997. We wish to put on record our thanks to Peter for his efforts on behalf of birdwatchers and County Recorders everywhere during his membership of the Committee. No doubt we shall turn to him fro...

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