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SCARCE MIGRANT BIRDS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND * HOW MANY are seen? * HOW REGULARLY do they come? * WHERE do they occur? * WHEN are they likely to be spotted? The above questions are authoritatively answered by the author, Dr J. T. R. Sharrock, honorary secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union's Record Committee and of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, joint convenor of the European Ornithological Atlas Committee, and a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee and of the Irish Records Panel. Dr Sharrock takes a ten-year period and investigates in detail all the records of a selection of birds which occur here as scarce migrants - birds from Europe, from Asia and from America. He considers their breeding and wintering ranges, and the patterns of their records in Britain and Ireland, and tries to determine, also ...* WHY do they visit us at all? Jacket design by Robert Gillmor
Contents
List of species
List of plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Hoopee, Golden Orieole and Tawny Pipit
2 Melodious Warbler, Icterine Warbler and Woodchat Shrike
3 Rough-legged Buzzard, Temminck's Strint and Long-tailed skua
4 Bluethroat and Ortolan Bunting
5 America birds
6 Greenish Warbler, Arctic Warbler and Scarlet Rosefinch
7 Mediterranean Gull, White-winged Black Tern and Gull-billed Tern
8 Yellow-browed Warbler and Richard's Pipit
9 Aquatic Warbler, Barred Warbler and Red-Breasted Fly-Catcher
10 Summary
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