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From the Rarities Committee's files: Do we know what British 'soft-plumaged petrels' are?

01 August 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Sightings of `soft-plumaged petrels' Pterodroma mollis/madeira/feae in British waters have increased significantly in the last 20 years, and there has been a growing realisation that all the British birds show a suite of characters as...

The Carl Zeiss Award 2003

01 December 2003 Comments Main paper The photographs which BBRC receives as supporting evidence for written accounts of rarities are an important, often critical, source of information; frequently, they make the task of record assessment both more enjoyable and, importantly, easier. In re...

Arctic Redpoll ID

01 February 2000 Comments Main paper The identification of Arctic Redpolls Carduelis hornemanni has been exhaustively covered, and the main criteria used to separate them from Common Redpolls C. flammea have been well described (Lansdown et al. 1991; Stoddart 1991; Czaplak 1995; ...

The influx of redpolls into Western Europe,1995/96

01 February 2000 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Winter 1995/96 saw a huge influx of Common Redpolls Carduelis flammea and Arctic Redpolls C. hornemanni into Britain and Western Europe. Two forms of redpoll were involved, the nominate race of Common Redpoll C. f. flamme...

Mystery photographs

01 November 1995 Comments Main paper This month's mystery bird (plate 197 on page 559, repeated overleaf as plate 199) is a small, relatively dull passerine with no obvious markings. The combination of unstreaked warm-brown upperparts, steep forehead and relatively fine bill suggests that...

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulÃ¤r winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper LEACH, HITHERTO in this series of articles we have thought it best to collect together all records of ringed birds, which have moved either from this country to abroad or from abroad to this country. This has meant a certain amount of duplication as the ...

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad

01 September 1934 Comments Main paper Only in the last few years have we obtained records to show the origin of our winter immigrant Rooks, but the information is now gradually accumulating. So far we have no ringing record of a British-bred Rook migrating oversea.*For previous parts see Vol....

Obituary: Ernst Johann Otto Hartert. 1859-1933

01 January 1934 Comments Obituaries I T was with deep regret that we briefly announced in our last number the death of Dr. Hartert in Berlin. This took place on the n t h (not the ioth as stated) of November, 1933, after an illness of less than three days. Ernst Johann Otto Hartert, to giv...

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