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Tim Melling, Auteur ; Mark Thomas, Auteur ; Mike Price, Auteur ; Staffan Roos, AuteurThe Peak District National Park is the southernmost area managed for driven Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus shooting in England. Grouse-moor management includes intensive moorland burning and predator control by gamekeepers. As in many areas with dri[...]
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Tim Melling, Auteur ; Robert Y. McGowan, Auteur ; Ian Lewington, AuteurA juvenile Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis was found freshly dead at Radipole Lake, Dorset, on 23rd November 1962. At the time, the bird was dismissed as being a likely escape from captivity, but subsequent information on the potential for lo[...]
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Tim Melling, Auteur ; Steve Dudley, Auteur ; Paul Doherty, AuteurInterest in the Eagle Owl Bubo bubo in Britain has increased during the past decade, particularly in relation to two well-known breeding pairs in northern England. An increase in the numbers being reported has led to calls for Eagle Owl to be re[...]
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Tim Melling, AuteurThis paper summarises the history and migrations of the Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis, a formerly abundant species now possibly extinct. A recent review of all British records by BOURC concluded that the previously accepted first British recor[...]
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Alan Knox, Auteur ; Tim Melling, Auteur ; Roger Wilkinson, AuteurThe evidence suggests that the Purple Swamp-hen Porphyrio porphyrio watched and photographed in Cumbria in October 1997 was an escape from captivity rather than a wild vagrant.
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Tim Melling, AuteurIn April 1908, a dark-morph Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta was reportedly found dead in Cheshire.The record was accepted by BOURC for more than 60 years but was removed from the British List in 1971 because the species was considered to be [...]
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Tim Melling, AuteurA Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruflcollis shot near Killingworth, Northumberland, on 5th October 1856 represents the sole record of this species in Britain. BOURC recently examined the circumstances surrounding the collection and documentatio[...]
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Tim Melling, AuteurThis paper presents a recent review of one of the most extraordinary 'firsts' for Britain, that of Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon. Once an old specimen record from 1915 was dismissed as being part of the 'Hastings Rarities' affair, [...]
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Andrew H. J. Harrop, Auteur ; J. Martin Collinson, Auteur ; Tim Melling, AuteurThere is a tendency to see examples of fraud in ornithology as rare aberrations. This paper outlines some known and suspected historical examples of fraud, and argues that fraud of one kind or another has occurred more or less consistently, if u[...]
