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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, ...

Monthly marathon

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Recent reports

01 October 2001 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers late August to mid September ...

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...

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...

Mystery photographs

01 September 1992 Comments Main paper Mystery photograph 181. Identify the species. Answer next month. ...

Mystery photographs

01 April 1983 Comments Main paper Last month's warbler (plate 57, repeated here) should have been identified instantly by readers with long memories, for Irene Neufeldt's photograph originally appeared in British Birds some 15 years ago (60: plate 31a). Let us, however, start from scra...

Additions to the British List

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Thick-Billed Warbler at Fair Isle: A new British Bird

01 March 1956 Comments Main paper AN example of the Thick-billed Warbler (Phragmaticola aedon), a bird from south-east Asia and apparently the first of its species to be recorded in Europe, was captured at Fair Isle on 6th October !955In the fleeting glimpses we obtained of this bird in t...

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Monthly marathon

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Ages of Great Spotted Cuckoos in Britain and Ireland

Mystery photographs

Mystery photographs

Additions to the British List

Thick-Billed Warbler at Fair Isle: A new British Bird

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