New Member required for BBRC

Published on 14 August 2014

BBRC seeks a new candidate to replace our longest-serving member James Lidster in December 2014.  The prime qualifications of candidates are; a widely acknowledged expertise in identification, proven reliability in the field a track record of high quality submissions of descriptions of scarce and rare birds to county records committees and BBRC considerable experience of […]

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Carl Zeiss Award 2014

Published on 12 August 2014

The Carl Zeiss Award is awarded for a photograph, or set of photographs, judged to have been most instructive for the BBRC’s assessment of difficult species (or subspecies) during the previous year. The first Ascension Frigatebird for Britain, found on Tiree, Argyll, in July 1953, lay in a museum tray, masquerading as a Magnificent Frigatebird […]

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