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This biannual feature, started 25 years ago (see Brit. Birds 70: 218), provides the only reliable, continent-wide report on population trends and significant, nationally accepted records of rarities. Some of the highlights in this fiftieth compilation include: First national records of the following species: Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus (Andorra), Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris (Channel Islands), Swinhoe's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis (Ireland), Redhead Aythya americana (Iceland), Ring-necked Duck A. collaris (Italy), Lesser Scaup A. affinis (Iceland), Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Finland), Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus (Channel Islands), Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae (Germany), Common Quail Coturnix coturnix (Iceland), Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima (Czech Republic), Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus (Great Britain), Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia (Poland), Laughing Gull Larus atricilla and Audouin's Gull L. audouinii (both Germany), Ring-billed Gull L. delawarensis (Denmark), Iceland Gull L. glaucoides (Bulgaria), Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri (France) and Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor (Ireland), First breeding records of Great White Egret Egretta alba in Belarus, Gadwall Anas strepera in the Channel Islands, Common Eider Somateria mollissima in Italy, Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis in Germany, Saker Falcon Falco cherrug in Poland, Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta in Slovenia and Herring Gull Larus argentatus in Spain, Population increase of the following species: Little Egret Egretta garzetta and Great White Egret in the Netherlands, Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia and White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala in Spain; with range expansion of Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber and Purple Swamp-hen Porphyrio porphyrio in Spain, and of European Bee-eater Merops apiaster in the Czech Republic, Population declines of Bean Geese Anser fabalis wintering in Germany, Kentish Plovers Charadrius alexandrinus and Dunlins Calidris alpina breeding in Germany, Gull-billed Terns Sterna nilotica in Denmark, and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers Dendrocopos minor in the Channel Islands.
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