Notes

01 June 2010 Comments Notes On 13th August 2009, along with several other observers, I was on board MV Celtic Wildcat taking part in a Sea Trust survey for cetaceans off the Pembrokeshire coast. About 40 km WSW of St Ann's Head, we encoun- tered 6-10 Fin Whales Balaenoptera physa...
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Letters

01 June 2010 Comments Letters When accounts of species new to Britain appear, I look back to the field characters of them described in BWP to see how the latter have held up. The reprise of the 1983 Scilly Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus (Brit. Birds 103: 93-99) gave pa...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 2003 Comments Other The bird in photo number 196 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 59, repeated here as plate 186 is partially obscured by foliage and branches, which does not help us at all in our quest to identify it. Nevertheless, the photograph is quite realistic, being just the...
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