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2022

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Scottish Birds Records Committee report on rare birds in Scotland, 2020

This is the 13th annual report of the Scottish Birds Records Committee (SBRC) describing rare birds recorded in Scotland during 2020. Details of previous annual reports that cover the period 2005 to 2019 can be found listed in McInerny & McGowan (2021), some of which are cited in this report

McInerny, C ; McGowan, R Y

2021

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Book review: Henry Seebohm’s Ornithology: his collecting, field observations, publications and evolutionary theories by Tim Milsom

McGowan, R Y

2021

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Bill measurements aid sub-specific identification of Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Britain

Wing length has been used by researchers to separate the resident British subspecies of Great Spotted Woodpecker from migrants from Fennoscandia, though some degree of overlap exists with this character. In this study, specimens at National Museums of Scotland (NMS) show that bill shape aids subspecific identification, confirming that Fennoscandian...

Dougall, T W ; McGowan, R Y

2021

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Scottish Birds Records Committee report on rare birds in Scotland, 2019

McInerney, C J ; McGowan, R Y

2020

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The five million bird eggs in the world’s museum collections are an invaluable and underused resource

The ~1.97 million egg sets (~5 million eggs) housed in museums have not been used in proportion to their availability. We highlight the wide variety of scientific disciplines that have used egg collections and the geographic locations and sizes of these collections, to increase awareness of the importance of egg...

Marini, Miguel Ângelo ; Hall, Linnea ; Bates, John ; Steinheimer, Frank D ; McGowan, R Y …

2020

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The first British record of "Continental Cormorant"

McGowan, R Y ; McInerney, C J

2020

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Scottish Birds Records Committee report on rare birds in Scotland, 2018

McInerney, C J ; McGowan, R Y

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Scottish Birds Records Committee report on rare birds in Scotland, 2017

McInerney, C J ; McGowan, R Y

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The polaris subspecies of Little Auk Alle alle on the British List

This paper describes the analysis of a number of Little Auk Alle alle specimens collected in Scotland that show biometrics of the subspecies A.a. polaris which breeds in the eastern part of the species' Arctic range. Wing length measurements confirmed that two specimens are A.a. polaris. This conclusion has been...

McInerney, C J ; McGowan, R Y