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01 March 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 17th January to 13th February 2000. Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis Wells/Holkham (Norfolk), 27th January to 13th February. Black Duck Anas rubripes Females: Loch Fleet (Highland), 18th January ...

Monthly marathon

01 March 2000 Comments Other January's bird (plate 32, repeated here as plate 90) was a brown, streaky thing and, just to make it more difficult (at least for birders used to field identification), it was in the hand. We can, however, quickly narrow down the hunt: the only West Pa...

News and Comment

01 March 2000 Comments News and comment It is not often that we come across a joint report produced by the RSPB and the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). We should not, however, be too surprised, as, for different reasons, the two organisations are both seeking larger...

Reviews

01 March 2000 Comments Reviews BIRDWATCHERS' YEARBOOK & DIARY By John E. Pemberton, 1999. 320 pages. ISBN 0-9533840-1-2. Paperback, £13.50. the British Trust for Ornithology. This includes an excellent paper by John Tully, a BTO volunteer from Avon, on how Trust survey informat...

Letters

01 March 2000 Comments Letters I should like to suggest that the time has now come to review the value of the county bird reports in their present form, since, in principle, they have not changed their format in the last 50 years. The publication of systematic lists ever y year, oft...

Notes

01 March 2000 Comments Notes At 08.51 GMT on 19th October 1995, near Keyhaven, Hampshire, I noticed a Great Skua Catharacta skua in fierce pursuit of a Little Egret Egretta garzetta about 1 km away over nearby saltmarsh. The egret was soon seized by the left wing and tumbled into ...

Saker Falcon diet:the implications ofhabitat change

01 March 2000 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A study of the Saker Falcon Falco cherrug in northeast Kazakhstan in 1997 revealed a diet dominated by susliks Spermophilus, but including some birds, mainly gamebirds (Galliformes) and crows (Corvidae).Traces of prey remains from the previous...

The Red Kite Breeding Survey

01 March 2000 Comments Main paper As a result of the continued population expansion of the Red Kites Milvus milvus in central Wales and the success of the ongoing re-establishment programme in England and Scotland, it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of the tota...

Separation of Americanand Great Bitterns

01 March 2000 Comments Main paper Of the 60 American Bitterns Botaurus lentiginosus recorded in Britain and Ireland up to the end of 1998, only ten have occurred since 1957. Four of these have been in Ireland, three in England, two in Wales and one in Scotland, with the easternmost ind...

Looking back

01 March 2000 Comments Other The rarities for the year [1899] have not been many, and one cannot but be impressed with the growing scarcity of the Hobby [Falco subbuteo], Kestrel [F. tinnunculus], Magpie [Pica pica], Quail [Coturnix coturnix], Woodcock [Scolopax rusticola], Ruff [...

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