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Résumé :
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This biannual feature was inaugurated 23 years ago (Brit. Birds 70: 218). These compilations provide the only reliable, continent-wide report on population trends and significant, nationally accepted records of rarities. Some of the highlights in this forty-seventh compilation include: cntdot First breeding by Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola in Armenia, Estonia, Slovakia and Switzerland cntdot First Black-throated Accentor Prunella atrogularis in France cntdot Flock of 25 Siberian Thrushes Zoothera sibirica in Poland cntdot First Upcher's Warbler Hippolais languida in Greece cntdot First Marmora's Warblers Sylvia sarda in Belgium and the Iberian Peninsula cntdot First Menetries's Warbler S. mystacea in Cyprus cntdot Irruption of Eurasian Jays Garrulus glandarius into Denmark and Latvia in autumn 1999 cntdot Irruption and breeding of Rosy Starlings Sturnus roseus in Bulgaria in spring 2000 cntdot Irruption of Pine Grosbeaks Pinicola enucleator into Scandinavia in autumn 1998 cntdot Cerulean Warbler Dendroica cerulea, Palm Warbler D. palmarum and Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas in Iceland in a ten-day purple patch in 1997 cntdot First Pallas's Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi in Portugal
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