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Volume 19 Number 5 Issue No. 233 May 2006 Bird News Calandra Lark on the Isle of May Are Dark Morph Rough-Legged Hawks Overl 19-5Complete.qxd 10-Aug-06 11:18 AM Page 1 Volume 19 Number 5 Issue No. 233 May 2006 Bird News Calandra Lark on the Isle of May Are dark morph Rough-legged Hawks overlooked in Europe? 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A Direct Debit form will appear on your renewal notice which will be sent when your resubscription is due. Issue No. 233 Volume 19 Number 5 177 Frontispage: Rufous Bush Robin, Lesvos, Greece (Rebecca Nason) 178 Bird News: Britain & Ireland May 2006 196 Western Palearctic News 204 The Calandra Lark on the Isle of May Mark Newell 208 Are dark morph Rough-legged Hawks overlooked in Europe? Jens-Kjeld Jensen 210 A pale morph Trinidade Petrel in the Azores Manuel Pinguinhas 212 Birding Egypt’s southern Red Sea coast Richard Bonser 220 Pigeonhole: Migration of bustards to and from France; HANZAB now complete!; More frigatebirds in the North Atlantic; A west Siberian CD-ROM; Diclofenac banned in India; Enid Stanford. 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