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01 December 2004 Comments News and comment Plunge-diving by gannets Morus is one of the most spectacular examples of specialist feeding by birds. Dives may commence from 30 m above, and reach depths of 30 m below, the water surface. To improve our understanding of the biomechanics of plunge-diving...

Non-native birds breeding in the UK in 2002

01 December 2004 Comments Main paper This is the seventh annual report by the Rare Breeding Birds Panel into the breeding of rarer non-native species in the UK, and covers the year 2002. Almost 300 species of non-native birds have been reported in the wild in Britain and about one-sixth of t...

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01 August 1994 Comments Notes Separation of Tawny Eagle from Steppe Eagle in Israel Tawny Eagle. Aquila rapax generally looks smaller and rather puny (and also, when perched, less elongated/horizontal) compared with Steppe Eagle A. nipalensis. Diagnostically, the North Af...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 1991

01 August 1994 Comments Main paper This is the nineteenth annual Report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, and its publication signals the retirement, through ill-health, of Robert Spencer as Secretary of the Panel. Bob took over from Tim Sharrock in 1983. Tim was the first Secretary, an...

Reviews

01 August 1994 Comments Reviews Wildwatch Information System, version 2, with UKMap. 3.5-in. or 5.25-in. computer disc, 44-p. manual. Computer Concepts (Northern), South Shields, 1994. £79.00. Input your bird records with date, place, grid reference, numbers, etc., and output t...

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