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Announcements

01 January 1994 Comments Editorials Bird Photograph of the Year This annual competition is once again sponsored by two longstanding friends of British Birds, the publishing firms Christopher Helm (Publishers) and HarperCollins' Entrants should read the rules carefully (see Brit. Birds 84...

Requests

01 January 1994 Comments Editorials Dark-rumped petrels. For a forthcoming paper on unidentified dark-rumped petrels, Stephen Morrison would like to receive all records of these enigmas seen in the northeast Atlantic. Details required should include at least the following: location and d...

Photographic requirements

01 January 1994 Comments Editorials Photographs needed, please. For forthcoming papers, we need original colour transparencies, colour prints or black-and-white prints of the following species: Gyr Falcon Falco rusticolus (ID, all plumages) Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva (ID,...

Recent reports

01 January 1994 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 15th November 1993 to 3rd January 1994 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Great White Egret Egretta alba Braunton Marshes (Devon), 21st-28th November; River Tamar (Devon), 4th...

News and comment

01 January 1994 Comments News and comment WHETHER WE LIKE THEM OR NOT, Canada Geese Branta canadensis are with us to stay; while they still have a long way to go before they catch up with the Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus, they have undoubtedly been very successful aliens (see Brit. Bird...

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