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 February 1993 Comments Notes Black-headed Gulls foraging behind motor vehicle. On 18th October 1989, while returning from Hilbre Island across the sands to West Kirby, on the Wirral, Cheshire, I noticed a Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus following our Land Rover, Keeping between...
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