The birdwatching year 2000

01 December 2001 Comments Main paper This report summarises the major bird movements and influxes of the year 2000, as well as including the rarity highlights. Unless stated otherwise, all the rarity records noted here have been accepted by the British Birds Rarities Committee (see Brit. ...
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Notes

01 April 1997 Comments Notes On 8th April 1992, while visiting Fes, Morocco, we observed many Alpine Swifts Apus melba feeding very low over the city, some foraging only 3 m above the ground and between the buildings. Many were evidently in poor condition; three were picked up fro...
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Notes

01 October 1996 Comments Notes On 21st June 1992, along the Basingstoke Canal, Hampshire, I came across a family of Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis. While watching the adults feeding their four young, I noticed a Pike Esox lucius about 30 cm long approach through the clear wate...
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Reviews

01 June 1994 Comments Reviews Birds of Skokholm. By Michael Betts. Bioline, for the Dyfed Wildlife Trust, Cardiff, 1992. 74 pages; 19 line-drawings; 76 histograms and graphs. ISBN 0-9520432-0-3. Paperback £4.50. This book gives a concise, readable account of data gathered sin...
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Reviews

01 March 1993 Comments Reviews H a n d b o o k o f the Birds o f Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. vol. VI: warblers. By S. Cramp et at. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. 728 pages; 31 colour plates; numerous line-drawings. ISBN...
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Fieldwork action BTO news

01 August 1992 Comments Editorials Once in a while, BTO survey results bring great cheer. The Peregrine Survey of 1991 is one such instance. The survey has revealed that the Peregrine Falco peregrinus has reached a new high in its population level in Britain. There are now at least 1,05...
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Fieldwork action BTO news

01 April 1992 Comments Editorials 'Nesting' helps bird conservation If, during the course of the spring and early summer, you come across the odd nest in a hedgerow or even in your garden, recording what you see on a card we supply can help towards the understanding and the conservatio...
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