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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...

The status of the Hawfinch in the UK 1975-1999

01 April 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes is poorly monitored in the UK. In order to assess its population changes during 1975-99, data were gathered from county bird reports and additional information obtained from county recor...

From the Rarities Committee's Files: Rare seabirds and a record of Herald Petrel

01 April 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Rare seabirds are often extremely hard to identify, and a significant part of the problem is that, when observed from land, circumstances are typically very difficult. In many cases, one or more of the following drawbacks applies: the weather ...

The European Bird Report

01 April 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT This biannual feature, started 25 years ago (see Brit. Birds 70: 218), provides the only reliable, continent-wide report on population trends and significant, nationally accepted records of rarities. Some of the highlights in thi...

The taxonomic status of Lesser Redpoll

01 June 2001 Comments Main paper Lesser Redpoll Carduelis cabaret has until recently been widely regarded as a subspecies of Common Redpoll C.flammea. In the past, it was geographically isolated from other redpolls during the breeding season, but expansion of its range s...

Common Tern ageing

01 June 2001 Comments Main paper Large numbers of Common Terns Sterna hirundo of known age were studied during the breeding season at Seaforth Nature Reserve, Liverpool, Merseyside. Detailed observations of key plumage and bare-part features were recorded, and compared with pub...

Greenish Warbler, 'Two-barred Greenish Warbler', and the speciation process

01 June 2001 Comments Main paper This Taxonomic Research Update draws birdwatchers' attention to the work of Irwin et at. (2001) on Greenish Warblers Phylloscopus trochiloides..Their research shows that two subspecies, P. t. viridanus and P. t. plumbeitarsus, ...

Two-barred Greenish Warbler on Scilly

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Rarities Committee news

01 June 2001 Comments BBRC News Night Heron, American Wigeon and Rosy Starling to be removed from BBRC list ...

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