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Product Review – Dutch Birding Volume 29 Number 5

November 3, 2007

I was particularly impressed by the very latest issue of Dutch Birding, mostly because of the inclusion of a first rate identification paper on American Sandwich Tern. Written by Martin Garner, Ian Lewington and Jason Crook, this paper provides instructive and little-known information regarding the separation of both adult (but particularly first-winter) European and Nearctic Sandwich Terns.

Ian Lewington’s plate on page 274 is absolutely superb and in my view, one of the best this rare bird artist has ever produced. It features 9 birds depicting juvenile, first-winter and adult winter plumages and is fully annotated to provide an instant and highly useful reference. American Sandwich Tern is clearly a ‘countable form’ under the PSC and with single records from both Holland and Britain, the species is most likely going overlooked. Late autumn/early winter is likely to be the optimum period for UK occurrences. The paper is 14 pages long and features a brilliant selection of reference photographs.

The issue also features an article on a wide-ranging ringed adult Laughing Gull, recorded in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and The Netherlands, along with full documentation of the Dutch Crag Martin influx in November 2006 and Portuguese Moussier’s Redstart in November 2006-January 2007.

As usual, the WP reports pages are filled with immaculately reproduced, first-rate colour photographs (Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross, Elegant Tern, Hudsonian Godwit, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Red-necked Stint and Lesser Grey Shrike tanding out, as well as that of the 37 of 69 African Skimmers Ray Scally, Robert Fuge and I observed in Egypt this July) and this same high quality continues in the Recent Sightings section covering occurrences in Holland and Belgium.

Further pages document the first breeding by White-winged Black Tern and Paddyfield Warbler in the Netherlands and an educational account of a first-winter White-collared Flycatcher trapped and ringed on 14th September 2007.

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