While this may seem an extraordinary question, it was one of the major agenda items during the 2004 BBRC Annual Business Meeting, held at Dungeness Bird Observatory, in Kent, in February. Debating our remit will help with some of the increasingly complex decisions we now have to make. These range from general issues such as […]

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BBRC have recently completed detailed assessments of several claims of African Chaffinches Fringilla coelebs africana/ spodiogenys. So far, claims of six different individuals have been assessed, including the first, well publicised bird, in Essex in 1994 All of the birds assessed so far have certainly shown features which are strongly reminiscent of male African Chaffinches […]

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