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The Carl Zeiss Award 2001

01 November 2001 Comments Main paper The British Birds Rarities Committee, established in 1959, has been supported and sponsored by Carl Zeiss Ltd, the renowned German optical company, since 1983 (Brit. Birds 76: 475). To encourage the submission of photographs, as supporting evidence to ...

Mixed colonies of large white-headed gulls in southern Poland

01 November 2001 Comments Main paper In the early part of 1999, we discovered a small colony of large white-headed gulls Larus at a gravel-pit near Jankowice, on the banks of the Vistula river in southern Poland, about 50 km from Krakow. On 28th February, we observed six pairs of gulls th...

Genetic relationships among the different races of Herring Gull, Yellow-legged Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull

01 November 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Genetic analyses of the relationships among different forms of Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus, Herring Gull L. argentatus and Yellow-legged Gull L. cachinnans are beset with difficulties, associated with appar...

Non-native birds breeding in the United Kingdom in 1999

01 November 2001 Comments Main paper The Rare Breeding Birds Panel has been monitoring the breeding of rarer nonnative species in the United Kingdom since 1996, and this is its fourth annual report, covering 1999. It is, however, disappointing to report that, after three years during whic...

Non-native birds breeding in theUnited Kingdomin 1997

01 September 1999 Comments Main paper This is the second report on non-native species of birds breeding in the United Kingdom and covers the year 1997. As explained in the introduction to the first report (Ogilvie et al. 1999b), the Rare Breeding Birds Panel has extended its remit to monit...

History of the Common Rosefinch in Britain and Ireland, 1869 - 1996

01 September 1999 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Forty-five years ago, the Scarlet Grosbeak Carpodacus erythrinus was one of those birds that (supposedly) you had to go to Fair Isle to see. It was there, on 13th September 1951, that I visually devoured my first dumpy, oddly amorphous but bea...

Panic ye not

01 September 1999 Comments Main paper Remember those speeded-up films of agar-filled petri dishes with colonies of bacteria and fungi expanding and competing, rather like ripples on a pond if a handful of stones is thrown in all at once? If you are a gardener, have you noticed that there i...

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