Announcements

01 August 1997 Comments Editorials We are delighted to include with this issue a free pull-out checklist compiled in co-operation with Oxford University Press and the editors of Birds of the Western Palearctic. Anyone wishing to have this checklist included within the issue in their bou...
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Announcements

01 August 1997 Comments Editorials The Carl Zeiss Award. Thanks to Carl Zeiss Ltd, the winner of the Carl Zeiss Award will be able to ehoose as his or her prize a pair of traditional Zeiss 10 X 40 binoculars or 7 X 42 binoculars, or the newer 'Night Owl' 7 X 42 binoculars. The presentat...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 August 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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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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