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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Requests

01 May 1982 Comments Editorials Chough survey in 1982 In April, May and June 1982, there is ajoint IWC/BTO/RSPB census of the Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax. The last comprehensive survey was in 1963, which showed there to be no Choughs left in England, 11 pairs in Scotland, ...
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Announcements

01 May 1982 Comments Editorials International Conference on Bird Census and Atlas Studies The International Bird Census Committee and the European Ornithological Atlas Committee have announced the forthcoming joint 8th International Conference on Bird Census Work and the 6th ...
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