The birdwatching year 2000

01 December 2001
Comments Main paper This report summarises the major bird movements and influxes of the year 2000, as well as including the rarity highlights. Unless stated otherwise, all the rarity records noted here have been accepted by the British Birds Rarities Committee (see Brit. ...
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Notes

01 April 1997
Comments Notes On 8th April 1992, while visiting Fes, Morocco, we observed many Alpine Swifts Apus melba feeding very low over the city, some foraging only 3 m above the ground and between the buildings. Many were evidently in poor condition; three were picked up fro...
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Notes

01 October 1996
Comments Notes On 21st June 1992, along the Basingstoke Canal, Hampshire, I came across a family of Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis. While watching the adults feeding their four young, I noticed a Pike Esox lucius about 30 cm long approach through the clear wate...
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Notes

01 January 1992
Comments Notes Little Grebes sunning in winter. At 11.30 GMT on 4th November 1988, in Chichester Harbour, West Sussex, I observed three Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis loafing between the yachts in Birdham marina. The yachts were moored closely, side by side, an...
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Notes

01 January 1990
Comments Notes Partial albinism of Manx Shearwaters, The note on leucism and partial albinism of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus (Brit. Birds 81 : 235-236) recalled the following. On 18th June 1972, in the Strait of Gibraltar, I observed a flock of about 160 ...
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Letters

01 November 1988
Comments Letters 'Breeding status of the Gad wall in Britain and Ireland' Since the publication of this paper (Brit. Birds 81: 51-66), a number of inaccuracies and sources of additional information have been brought to my attention. Gadwalls Anas strepera did in fact bree...
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Letters

01 June 1986
Comments Letters British rarities in a foreign perspective. In a letter (Brit. Birds 78:51 -52), Norman Elkins hypothesised on the possible route of a single Yellowbrowed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys which arrived on Fair Isle, Shetland, in October 1980. Contrary ...
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Short Reviews

01 June 1986
Comments Reviews The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History. Edited by Michael Allaby. (OUP, 1985. £20.00) Despite three years at university studying botany, two studying zoology, and a further three researching in ecology, 90% of the words in this dictionary are still ...
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