These pages contain a variety of notes on various topics which may be of interest and/or relevance to Irish birders. Some of the notes consist of original content and some are copies of previously published articles.


The IRBC would like to thank all the authors who have kindly provided us with notes or allowed us reproduce previously published articles as PDF documents. In addition we would like to thank Richard Millington and Steve Gantlett, the editors of Birding World and Arnoud van den Berg and the editors of Dutch Birding for allowing us reproduce articles from the pages of their respective journals.


Notes

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Eugene Archer Acquiring an Aquatic . . . finding the next Aquatic Warbler in Ireland Click here
Derek Charles Identification challenges presented by 2nd winter Kumlien's Gull Click here
Michael O'Keeffe That Cackling Conundrum Click here
Dave Suddaby Ageing & Sexing a Snowy Owl: is it possible? Click here

Finder's Accounts

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Paul Archer Common Yellowthroat at Loop Head, Clare - a species new to Ireland Click here
Dermot Breen Hudsonian Godwit in Inishdawros, Galway - a species new to Ireland Click here
Derek Charles White-throated Sparrow in Belfast - the 2nd Irish record Click here
Davey Farrar Black Scoter off Rossbeigh, Kerry - a species new to Ireland Click here
Harry Hussey Hume's Warbler at Knockadoon Head, Cork - a species new to Ireland Click here
Éamonn MacLochlainn Yellow-billed Cuckoo at Cape Clear Island, Cork - the 6th Irish record Click here
Dennis O'Sullivan Lesser Sand Plover in Ballymacoda Estuary, Cork - a species new to Ireland Click here
Mark Shorten Lesser Crested Tern in Ballycotton, Cork - a species new to Ireland Click here
Jim Wilson American Herring Gull in Cobh, Cork - a species new to Ireland Click here

PDF copies of articles originally published elsewhere. These documents open in a new window

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Jill Crosher The Brown Shrike in Co. Kerry (1.5MB)1 Click here
Maurice Hanafin The Canada Warbler in Co. Clare - the second for the WP ( 0.9MB)2 Click here
Steve Wing The Blue-winged Warbler in Co. Cork - a new WP bird (1.2MB)3 Click here
Pat Lonergan &
Killian Mullarney
Identification of American Herring Gull in a western European context (1.6MB)4 Click here

1Original note appeared in Birding World 12(12): 483-486

2Original note appeared in Birding World 19(10): 429-434

3Original note appeared in Birding World 13(10): 408-411

4Original note appeared in Dutch Birding 26(1): 1-35