Recent reports

01 December 2000 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers the period 16th October to 12th November 2000. November. Gyr Falcon Falco rusticolus Kilcoole (Co. Wicklow), 11th-12th November. Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius Dunwich/Blythburgh/ Minsmere Pied-billed Grebe...
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Recent reports

01 June 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 17th April to 15th May 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Between Catfirth and South Nesting (Shetland), 24th April; Gruinard Bay (Highland), 3rd May; Sound of Barra (Western Isles), 6th May; off...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1994 Comments Other With that wing-stretching wader (plate 43 in the March issue), the sixth 'Monthly marathon' has been won. It was identified as Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (48%), Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (36%) and seven other wader species. It was a Wood Sandpi...
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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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