Recent Reports

01 September 1998
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 20th July to 16th August 1998. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black Stork Ckonia nigra Holywell Pond (Northumberland), 8th August; Ventnor (...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 September 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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Announcements

01 September 1998
Comments Editorials Produced by state-of-the-art programmed laser technology, with every piece a different shape (and intriguing straight-sided pieces in the middle, and hidden corners), a set of four unique bird jigsaw puzzles is being specifically produced for British B...
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Looking Back

01 September 1998
Comments Other Fifty years ago: 'THE BLACK REDSTART INQUIRY FOR 1947 . . . has yielded evidence for at least fifteen pairs of Black Redstarts {Phoenicuros ochruros gibraltariensis) breeding in south-east England in 1947, again in the counties of Sussex, Kent and Midd...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1998
Comments Other Almost nobody was fooled by the Common Coot Fullica atra in plate 88, photographed in Shetland by Wendy Dickson in April 1998, although 6% plumped for Red-knobbed Coot F. cristata and the pale flight feathers deceived one entrant into naming it as Redc...
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