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Notes

01 June 2007 Comments Notes Slavonian Grebe breeding with Great Crested Grebe Puffin with exceptionally heavy tick infestation Eurasian Sparrowhawk attacking Soprano Pipistrelle bat Reed Warbler apparently using willow-bark pieces in nest construction ...

From the Rarities Committee's files: Do we know what British 'soft-plumaged petrels' are?

01 August 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Sightings of `soft-plumaged petrels' Pterodroma mollis/madeira/feae in British waters have increased significantly in the last 20 years, and there has been a growing realisation that all the British birds show a suite of characters as...

Fea's Petrel in the Western Approaches

01 August 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae gave prolonged views to several hundred birders from the MV Scillonian III on an annual pelagic trip in August 2001.This well-documented record was for a short time the first accepted record of this spec...

Fea's Petrel off Scilly: new to Britain

01 August 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae was seen from a boat approximately 10 km south of Scilly on 8th July 2001. Although there had been several previous sightings of Fea's/Zino's Petrels P. feae/madeira in British waters, this sigh...

Seventy-five years ago

01 February 2006 Comments Other That the number of Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps c. cristatus) nesting in some parts of England is largely determined by the frequency of nesting sites of a certain type can, I think, be proved from the remarkable rapidity they show in coloni...

Letters

01 July 2004 Comments Latest issues The distribution of Macqueen’s BustardAre there really two species of houbara?English names for Western Palearctic birdsThe dangers in photographs, arranged artwork and their captions ...

The 'soft-plumaged petrel' complex: a review of the literature on taxonomy, identification and distribution

01 January 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT This paper reviews the literature concerning the taxonomy, identification and distribution of the `soft-plumaged petrel' Pterodroma feae/madeira/mollis complex in the Western Palearctic.There are no known consistent plumage difference...

The Carl Zeiss Award 2002

01 December 2002 Comments Main paper The British Birds Rarities Committee, estab- lished in 1959, has been supported and spon- sored by Carl Zeiss Ltd, the renowned German optical company, since 1983 (Brit. Birds 76: 475). The Carl Zeiss Award was established in 1991 (Brit. Bird...