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01 November 2000 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers the period 18th September to 15th October 2000. Cape Verde Petrel Pterodroma feae Old Head of Kinsale (Co. Cork), 23rd September. American Wigeon Anas americana Loch of Hilwell (Shetland), at least ten on 9th Oc...

Announcements

01 November 2000 Comments Editorials As announced in July (Brit. Birds 93: 347), Bryan Bland will be leading a birdwatching trip to Hungary during 6th-13th May 2001, arranged for British Birds subscribers by the bird-tour company Sunbird, sponsor of our `Monthly Marathon'. One of the aims...

News and Comment

01 November 2000 Comments News and comment Recent research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has demonstrated that the growing of genetically modified (GM) herbicideresistant sugar beet on farmland currently carrying a healthy population of weeds and their associated seeds could have ser...

Letters

01 November 2000 Comments Letters In his account of a petrel seen off Ireland in 1974, Jim Enticott (Brit. Birds 92: 504-518) misquoted me in saying `Bourne (Bull. BOC 85: 97-105) proposed treating Soft-plumaged Petrel as three distinct species, Softplumaged Pterodroma mollis, Gon-gon ...

Notes

01 November 2000 Comments Notes Twenty-three years ago, information from national breeding-bird atlas projects was used to generate provisional Europe-wide maps of the breeding distribution of the continent's ten species of woodpecker (Picidae) (Brit. Birds 70: 476-488). Subsequently...

Recent BBRC decisions

01 November 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...

Looking back

01 November 2000 Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Notes on Observations in Natural History during a Tour in Norway...The Capercailzie (Tetrao Urogallus) claims the first notice, as he is the great pride of the Norwegian forests...a cool, steady shot from below brings ...

Monthly marathon

01 November 2000 Comments Other On plate 252 (repeated here as plate 344) we have a passerine perched on an overhead cable. The scale is difficult to judge, though we are clearly dealing with a small bird. It has a rather well-marked head pattern, with an apparently bold supercilium ...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1999

01 November 2000 Comments Main paper This is the forty-second annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee, and it is an almost complete record of all the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1999. What a fantastic year it was, with, potentially, three new species for the British Li...

British Birds – November 2000

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