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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1999

01 November 2000 Comments Main paper This is the forty-second annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee, and it is an almost complete record of all the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1999. What a fantastic year it was, with, potentially, three new species for the British Li...

Notes

01 November 1989 Comments Notes Western Reef Heron eating Phylloscopus warblers. On 11th March 1984, in a well-watered hotel garden at Hurghada, Egypt, a solitary Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis schistacea was observed at close quarters. Suddenly, the heron darted forward and took...

Letters

01 April 1986 Comments Letters Escapes? Some years ago, Derek Goodwin and the late Derrick England published some long comments on the problem for birdwatchers of escaped cage birds (Brit. Birds49: 339-349; 67: 177-197). Since those papers, a new generation of birders has appeared, ...

Letters

01 February 1971 Comments Letters Elusive species and the B.T.O. Ornithological Atlas project Some species are proving to be difficult to locate in fieldwork for the Ornithological Atlas. In order to prepare full maps for these species, we cannot rely solely on fieldwork carried out purel...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1999

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