Announcements

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Books in British BirdShop. The following books have been added to the list this month: Simms: British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails. Smith: Alfred Russel Wallace.Trodd & Kramer: The Birds of Bedfordshire. For all your book orders, please use the ...
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Requests

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Scarce migrant records To ensure that accurate and comprehensive accounts of scarce migrants and other rarities can be prepared, detailed records of the following species are requested:  inland Black-throated Gavia arctica and Great Northe...
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ICBP news

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Birding abroad. Last summer, Mark Pearman, a British birder now living in Argentina, rediscovered one of t h e world's least-known birds, Kaempfer's Tody-tyrant Hemitriccus kaempferi, in humid lowland forest in southern Brazil. This species was de...
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If the caption fits

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Of the many suggested captions to Mike Weston's photograph of two Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibutidus (Brit. Birds 84: plate 15, repeated here), we enjoyed the following:  'Decent, respectable gulls keep their sexual affairs to the proper...
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Requests

01 March 1981 Comments Editorials Status of Reeves's Pheasant Currently, Reeves's Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii is in category D of the British list. Recent checks, however, have indicated that all recorded liberations of the species have failed, while those in Woburn Park, Bedf...
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Photographic requests

01 March 1981 Comments Editorials Periodically, we list the species for which we need good quality blacka n d - w h i t e photographs to illustrate forthcoming papers. O n this occasion, we have listed the urgent requirements separately. Photographers who are able to help should submit...
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Announcements

01 March 1981 Comments Editorials A 'British Birds' Workshop: North American birds 16th to 23rd September 1981 As a service to the most dedicated d specialist birders and ringers, British Birds is pleased to offer an eight-day field-identification workshop in North America...
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