Recent BBRC decisions

01 April 2002 Comments BBRC News This regular 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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Notes

01 April 2002 Comments Notes On 25th May 1999, in open parkland at Oxenford Farm, near Elstead, Surrey, a Greylag Goose Anser anser was discovered nesting in a hollow branch in a large, dead oak Quercus tree (plate 104). As the nest hole was approximately 10 m from the ground, it ...
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Notes

01 June 1933 Comments Notes O N April 8th, 1933, the Blackbird which sings from the apex of our cottage on Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, was displaced by a small finch whose song I have never heard before. It was linnet-like, but much fainter, and I put down the notes " tu-tee, t...
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Notes

01 May 1933 Comments Notes As the Jackdaw (Colceusm. spermologus) is a bird not usually subject to variation, some notes on a local variety seen at Douglas may be of interest. These white-winged Jackdaws are best described as having on the outer primary a white spot or " mirror " e...
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Notes

01 April 1933 Comments Notes ONE always associates the Raven (Corvus corax) with extreme intelligence, but not so a pair (or its yearly successors, for many are destroyed round here by gamekeepers, etc.) that breed in a secluded Denbighshire gorge, not many miles away from my home. ...
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Notes

01 March 1933 Comments Notes IN an article on the Marsh- and Willow-Tits (antea, Vol. XXIV., p. 319), Mr. J. Walpole Bond stated that he had never seen or heard of a nest of a Marsh-Tit (Parus palustris dresseri) in masonry. It may, therefore, be of interest to record that I found s...
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Notes

01 February 1933 Comments Notes ON May ist, 1932, at Leathcrcote Point, St. Margarets-atCliffe, 1 came across a bird which 1 identified as an Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris). It remained for some considerable time in the same area around some small low-lying bushes on the cliff edg...
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Notes

01 January 1933 Comments Notes {Pastor roseus).--On September loth, 1932, a Rose-coloured Starling was seen by Mr. J. H. Stubbs in a grass field close to the village of North Cotes with a small flock of Starlings. He saw it at a very short distance and his description was so good that...
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