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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Requests

01 May 1980 Comments Editorials Glaucous Gulls in winter 1979/80 Unusual numbers of Glaucous Gulls Larus hyperboreus have been reported, especially in the Midlands and southwest England, during winter 1979/80. To document and discuss this influx in a short paper in Briti...
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Announcements

01 May 1980 Comments Editorials Society of Wildlife Artists' exhibition The dates of this annual event have been changed from those given in 'Diary dates' (Brit. Birds 72: 598599); the new dates are 29th July to 11th August 1980. New member for Rarities Committee The votes of...
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