Corrections

01 December 1998
Comments Editorials VOLUME 90 321 'Shirihai 1996' should read 'King & Shirihai 1996' (the reference on page 324 should also be amended, by the insertion of 'KING, J., &'. 473 Plate 159. Bird at extreme left is a Little Gull Larus minutus. 545 Plate 197. Cornwall (...
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Recent Reports

01 December 1998
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary of unchecked reports covers Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Bryher (Scilly), 28th-30th October. Black Duck Anas rubripes Stithian's Reservoir (Cornwall), 29th October to 8th November...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 December 1998
Comments Editorials 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 December 1998
Comments Other The bird in the seventh stage (plate 110) was identified as a wheatear Oenanthe by everyone, and most entrants (87%) correctly named it as Red-tailed O. xanthopryma (it was photographed by Colin Richardson in the United Arab Emirates in November 1989)....
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