While it came as no great surprise to the observers of the `Dungeness petrel' (Brit. Birds 95: 156-165) that the record was rejected, this feeling merely reflects what we take to be a widespread view among observers: that the BBRC finds it very difficult to accept major rarities which are not seen by large numbers of observers and, ideally, photographed. This is clearly a situation which will occur

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