Recent reports

01 May 2000
Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 13th March to 16th April 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Gruinard Bay (Highland), 6th April. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Rolleston-on-Dove (Staffordshire), 25th-31st March; Brixham (Devo...
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Letters

01 May 2000
Comments Letters The dramatic decline in the numbers of House Sparrows Passer domesticus in the centre of London over the past 20 or so years is well documented and generally accepted (Summers-Smith 1999). Indeed, the matter of the decrease has already been raised twic...
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News and Comment

01 May 2000
Comments News and comment The recent newsletter of Organbidexka Col Libre, which exists to study and protect birds migrating over the Pyrénées, has an interesting article summarising the migration of Booted Eagles Hieraaetus pennatus.As a single individual has bee...
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Announcements

01 May 2000
Comments Editorials As previously announced (Brit Birds 92: 345-346), the Rare Breeding Birds Panel is organising a census of breeding European Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus in Britain this year. Regional, county or area coordinators have been appointed, in liaison with ...
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Recent BBRC decisions

01 May 2000
Comments News and comment This monthly listing of the most recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual `Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 2000
Comments Other Oh, no! It's a not-verysharp photograph of a rather plain warbler (plate 91, repeated here as plate 137). The plainness and the general shape and lack of any marking save for a weak supercilium suggest one of the Phylloscopus warblers, perhaps one of t...
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Looking back

01 May 2000
Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `I have been struck [by] the excessive desire, which would appear to exist, not only to multiply genera and to fabricate names of a startling character to the common and unlearned reader, but also to change and to throw...
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