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Résumé :
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This biannual feature, formerly called 'European news', has now been renamed, as announced in the Editorial last month (Brit. Birds 93:58). 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-sixth compilation include: cntdot Flock of Greater Flamingos Phoenicopterus ruber in Switzerland cntdot First Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus in Denmark cntdot About 16,500 breeding pairs of Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus in Spain cntdot First Lesser Spotted Eagle Aquila pomarina in Spain cntdot First Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala in Israel
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