Diary dates

01 December 1988
Comments Editorials This list covers January to December 1989. 6th-8th January BTO RiNGfNG AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire. Details from Chris Mead, BTO, Beech Grove, Tring, Hertfordshire HP23 5NR. 16th January. RSPB...
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Requests

01 December 1988
Comments Editorials Plumages of gannets. Ed Mackrill is preparing a short paper for British Birds on the occurrence in Britain and western Europe of Gannets Sula bassana showing the characteristics of Cape Gannet S. capensis and Australasian Gannet S. serrator (plate 354)...
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Announcements

01 December 1988
Comments Editorials Thank you to our sponsors The Editorial Board would like to give special thanks to the firms and organisations which have helped BB with sponsorship during 1988: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd, 'The Famous Grouse' Sc...
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Corrections

01 December 1988
Comments Editorials VOLUME 80  Pages 597 & 598 FIELD IDENTIFICATION OF RAPHE'S AND DUSKY WARBLERS Plates 303 and 304: photographer was J, R. Clarkson (not J. M. Clarkson).  626 HEAD-SHAKING OF GARGANEY AND TEAL WHILE FEEDING See revised versi...
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Coming soon . . .

01 December 1988
Comments Editorials Among the exciting contributions due for publication in the next few months, we can look forward to papers on the following subjects: Habitat and breeding of Goshawks Accipiter gentilis in lowland Britain Identification of small skuas S...
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If the caption fits . . .

01 December 1988
Comments Editorials The competition to supply an apt caption to Hans Schouten's photograph of a Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (Brit. Birds 80: plate 331, repeated here) produced a wide range of suggestions. The following are our top choices.  1. " / haven't t...
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The Common Birds Census

01 February 1975
Comments Editorials Thirteen breeding seasons have now passed since the British Trust for Ornithology started its very successful Common Birds Census. The main aim of the scheme has been to keep an annual check on the population levels of our more common birds. The techni...
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Request for information

01 February 1975
Comments Editorials Checklist of the birds of The Gambia A comprehensive checklist of the birds of The Gambia is currently being prepared by Jens Kirkeby and Jorn Vestergaard Jensen in co-operation with the Gambian Ornithologists' Society. It is intended that this...
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What results from bird-ringing

01 February 1975
Comments Editorials The bird ringing scheme in Britain, run by the British Trust for Ornithology, is the largest outside North America, but there is cause for disquiet in the relatively small output of published analyses and of other papers making use of ringing data. Wit...
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