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 April 1988 Comments Editorials Colour-ringed Dotterels. In 1987, over 300 breeding Dotterels Charadrius morinellus and their chicks were ringed in Scotland. This represents a large pproportion of the breeding population and doubles the previous n u m b e r ever ringed in B...
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Announcements

01 April 1988 Comments Editorials Following a meeting at Blunham, some of our rare men headed east for a spot of birding on a Norfolk heath. One of them, in the light of an earlier discussion while watching Linnets feeding in Tim Sharrock's Garden, was struck by the amazing series of c...
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