Requests

01 January 1992
Comments Editorials 'Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World'. Corrections are required, for a forthcoming revision of the book by Charles Sibley and Burt Monroe (1990) scheduled for spring 1992. It is requested that all suggested changes, including those where ra...
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Announcements

01 January 1992
Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year. This year's Young Ornithologists' Club competition was sponsored jointly by the Young Telegraph and British Birds. Competitors were required to submit their field notebooks for perusal by the judges, Brough Girling (17...
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ICBP news

01 January 1992
Comments Editorials Progress in Malta? On a recent visit to Malta, ICBP Migratory Birds Officer Tobias Salathe witnessed the extent of the illegal shooting that occurs on the island. At Buskett Gardens, for example, the major pine forest of the Maltese islands and an attr...
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Fieldwork action BTO news

01 January 1992
Comments Editorials Nightjars and Corn Buntings. The year 1992 will be busy for BTO members. In the 'Nightjar Survey', initial work in 1991 by volunteers and paid teams in selected centres found far more Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus than expected, in spite of bad weath...
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Announcements

01 April 1979
Comments Editorials 'Bird Illustrator of the Year* and 'The Richard Richardson Award' The closing date for entries for these competitions is 31st May 1979. Artists are invited to submit four line-drawings: full details were given in the January issue {Brit. Birds ...
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Requests

01 April 1979
Comments Editorials Survey of food washing and dunking by birds There are scattered records of birds of many orders dipping food into water. The functions probably extend beyond the role of food washing, and dunking to moisten, lubricate and soften the food may be...
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