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Recent Reports

01 May 2019 Comments Recent Reports Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Harry Hussey This summary of unchecked reports covers early March to early April 2019. Headlines It was a generally quiet period, ...

Notes

01 March 2005 Comments Notes Little Grebe swallowing small mammal Cream-coloured Courser showing feeding attachement to desert road Exceptional numbers of Oriental Plovers in southern Siberia in 2003 Ruffs feeding on contents of Giraffe's stomach Ta...

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...

Monthly marathon

01 December 2000 Comments Other It's a Ruff Philomachus pugnax, isn't it? October's Monthly Marathon picture (plate 300, repeated here as plate 363) is one that I expect many people will have recognised instantly without necessarily being able to put their finger on exactly ...

Recent reports

01 May 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 13th March to 16th April 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Gruinard Bay (Highland), 6th April. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Rolleston-on-Dove (Staffordshire), 25th-31st March; Brixham (Devo...

Ages of Great Spotted Cuckoos in Britain and Ireland

01 March 1995 Comments Main paper Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius breeds in southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but it nests regularly in western Europe only in Portugal, Spain, southern France and western Italy. Those from this population winter in Africa. Autumn mig...

Monthly marathon

01 September 1994 Comments Other The two birds shown in plate 94 were named as White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons (37%), Bean Geese A. fabalis (35%), Pink-footed Geese A. brachyrhynchus (14%), Greylag Geese A. anser (8%) and Lesser White-fronted Geese A. erythropus (6%), wi...

Monthly marathon

01 October 1986 Comments Other Skylark Alauda arvensis (68%) Woodlark Lullula arborea (18%) Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens (5%) Oriental Skylark A. gulgula (4%) Thekla Lark Galerida theklae (3%) Lapland Bunting Calcarius lapponicus (1%) There were also a small number o...

Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1982 Comments Other 'EVERYONE who takes an interest in the birds of this country will have the greatest satisfaction in learning that the Ruff, so long lost to Norfolk as a breeding bird, has once more nested in the county.' (Brit, Birds 1: 65, August 1907) ...