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Titre :	The Bufflehead in Britain: A review
Auteurs :	Alan G. Knox, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	British Birds (94(2) February, 2001)
Article en page(s) :	61-73
Résumé :	The BOU Records Committee reviewed 16 British records of Bufflehead Bucephala albeola up to 1950 and the first two records after that date. Of the older records, many were clouded by fraud or by lack of detail, and only one was considered to be acceptable for Category B of the British List: a female shot on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, on 17th January 1920. The two later records were accepted into Category A: sight records of males at Foxcote Reservoir, Buckinghamshire, from 28th February to 8th March 1961 and, rather more satisfactorily, at West Loch Bee, South Uist, Western Isles, during 14th-18th March 1980. The numbers of this species kept in captivity increased significantly after 1980, and the likelihood of Buffleheads seen in Britain having a captive origin has become much greater.

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