News and Comment

01 February 2000
Comments News and comment The first meeting of the enlarged Taxonomic Sub-committee (TSC) of the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (see Brit. Birds 92: 490) was held at Swanwick in Derbyshire on 4th December 1999. The six members of the TSC ­ Dr Martin Collinson ...
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Notes

01 February 2000
Comments Notes At 11.55 hours on 10th November 1995, at the Remolar-Filipines Reserve on the Llobregat Delta, Barcelona, Spain, we recorded what seemed to be a co-ordinated attack by three species of raptor on a subadult female Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis. Th...
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Notes

01 November 1986
Comments Notes Squacco Heron eating passerines. On 11th April 1984, at Eilat, Israel, I watched a Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides catching passerines in a field of alfalfa. In one hour of only intermittent observation, three birds were seen to be caught and swallowed...
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