Recent Reports

01 November 1998 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary of unchecked reports covers Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax Quendale area (Shetland), 4th-6th October. Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri Deerness (Orkney), 29th September to 3rd October. Frank...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 1998 Comments Editorials All records refer to 1998 unless stated otherwise. ACCEPTED: Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus Minsmere (Suffolk), 26th May. Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia Eyebrook Reservoir (Leicestershire), 9th-10th May. Laughing Gull Larus atricilla ...
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Monthly Marathon

01 November 1998 Comments Other Although also named as Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola, Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus, Greater Sand Plover C. leschenaultii, Caspian Plover C. asiaticus, Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola, White-tailed Lapwing Vanellus leucurus and Isab...
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Recent reports

01 March 1989 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th January to 10th February 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Billingham (Cleveland), from at least 31st January. Long-billed Dowitcher L...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1989 Comments Other December's wader (Brit. Birds 81: plate 353) was named by entrants as: Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (73%) Least Sandpiper C. minutilla (12%) Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (7%) Temminck's Stint C. temminckii (3%), with a small n u m b e r of entr...
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News and Comment

01 March 1989 Comments News and comment Official opening by Tony Soper o f'The ZEISS West Germany Wild Goose Observatory' at The Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, November 1988. Left to right, Dr Brian Bertram (Director General), Lady Scott, Sir Peter Scott, Miss Eileen Parsons (Z...
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