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01 May 1995 Comments Editorials Photographs of 1994 rarities needed. Colour prints, black-and-white prints and colour transparencies are needed to illustrate the Rarities Committee's next report. Please send prints or slides (as soon as possible) to Mrs Sheila Cobban, British Birds, ...

The famous Grouse' Scotch whisky Christmas puzzle: the solution

01 May 1995 Comments Editorials 1. The Honey-buzzard will dig a huge hole, sometimes almost burying itself, as it excavates a wasps' nest. 2. An ancient stone circle on The Machars in Dumfries & Galloway is known as the Wren's Egg. 3. Runaway slaves were known as 'blackbirds'. 4....

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01 May 1995 Comments Editorials Alan Brown retired from the British Birds Rarities Committee as longest-serving member on 31st March 1995. Nominations for his replacement were invited via a number of publications during 1994. No nomination was made by the Committee itself, opening up...

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01 April 1984 Comments Editorials Berlengas Islands Have you ever been birdwatching on the Berlengas Islands, Portugal? If so, details of observations of breeding seabirds there in the past (especially old photographs of the breeding sites, including the Guillemot ledges), and any popu...

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01 April 1984 Comments Editorials David & Charles books. As announced last month (page 125), we have made special arrangements with the publishers David & Charles for the National Geographic Society Field Guide to the Birds of North America to be sold through British ...

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