By J. N. Dymond;etc.;P.A. Fraser;S.J. Gantlett
This e-book via a trio of rare-bird experts is a successor to 2 previous works (long out of print), Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and eire (Sharrock 1974 and infrequent Birds in Britain and eire (Sharrock 1976). It unifies either one of the sooner books and updates them, including greater than eighty species to the former total.The authors have analysed and thought of a few 45,000 files of scarce and infrequent birds in Britain and eire for the interval 1958-85. severe rarities outdoors the interval also are indexed. they've got produced not just a booklet of serious fascination in the event you get pleasure from rarities for his or her personal sake, yet person who deals necessary info on altering styles of arrival which can point out alterations of prestige of those birds inside of their breeding range.More than three hundred species money owed are actually integrated, such a lot of them followed by way of histograms of weekly and seasonal occurrences, with maps displaying distribution by way of counties in spring and autumn or at specific occasions of the yr. For rarities with twelve or fewer occurrences in the course of the interval 1958-85, where, date and different correct details is given for every record.Every species is illustrated by means of a line drawing, greater than one hundred fifty of them commissioned for this booklet, the rest being chosen from the 2 prior works.Thanks to the services and diligence of the authors the reader has an entire photograph for greater than three hundred species of rarities in those islands and will without problems become aware of: what number have been noticeable, while did they take place, HOW on a regular basis did they come and the place have been they obvious.
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I ! ! ! ! ! oomnn~N~ronro~oo~~aM. SPRING AUTUMN There were spring peaks in 1970 and 1983, but autumn records have been more or less steady since about 1966. There were about 165 records before 1958. The distributional and date pattern of spring records, typical of overshooting migrants, demonstrates that the vast majority of records concern wild birds and the stigma that many were escapes from captivity seems largely unfounded. It seems only logical to conclude that the majority of autumn birds (many of which are immatures) are also wild birds.
Bufflehead Bucephala albeola Breeds North America, mainly in central and western Canada. Winters USA to Mexico. Like a small Goldeneye B. clangula but with large white patch on head (male) or small white cheek patch behind eye (female); takes off directly from water, not pattering like other diving ducks. There have been seven records, two of them since 1958: Norfolk: Great Yarmouth, male, shot, in about 1830. Yorkshire: Bridlington in winter 1864-65. Outer Hebrides: South Uist in June 1870. Scilly: Tresco in January 1920.
One in Lincolnshire, found shot, on 15th September 1979, had been ringed in the Netherlands on 9th July 1979, the first instance of breeding there. Hl 7-8 9-11 ~< I:>~ •• 37 Great White Egret Egretta alba Breeds Netherlands in small numbers and from Hungary eastwards to Japan and south to Australia; Africa south of the Sahara; also southern North, Central and South America. European population winters mostly in the north Mediterranean. Much larger and also slimmer than Little Egret, with angularly-held thin neck; long legs black or pinkish; feet blackish; bill black in summer, yellow in winter, often partly black and partly yellow; no crest, but scapular plumes in summer; long narrow wings in flight.