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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Editorial

01 August 1982 Comments Editorials It is at this time each year, on the anniversary of the journal becoming independent of a large publishing house and 'going it alone', that we have to assess BB's financial position again, for the coming 12 months. Our aim is to maintain or improve the...
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Request

01 August 1982 Comments Editorials Binoculars and telescopes survey Our previous summary of readers' usage and opinions of binoculars and telescopes (Brit. Birds 71: 429-439) provided much interesting information, but is perhaps now somewhat out-of-date. In this issue (page v on...
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Announcements

01 August 1982 Comments Editorials Free badge offer Fly your own juvenile Sabine's Gull on this button-badge issued to mark the publication of Peter Grant's new book Gulls--a guide to identification. To obtain your free badge (available only to British Birds readers) send a self...
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