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01 November 1994 Comments Letters Origin of European Pink-backed Pelicans. Following the report of a Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Spain (Brit. Birds 86: 374-375), and one near Sagrado, northeast Italy, in September 1992, as well as other observations farther north in Euro...

Reviews

01 November 1994 Comments Reviews Finches and Sparrows: an identification guide. By Peter Clement. Illustrated by Alan Harris & John Davis. Christopher Helm Publishers, London, 1993. 500 pages; 73 colour plates; 44 line-drawings; over 280 distribution maps. ISBN 0-7136-8017-2. £29...

Announcements

01 November 1994 Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report Entries are invited for the fourth annual award (see accounts of the first, second and third awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Br...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

01 November 1994 Comments Main paper This, the Rarities Committee's thirty-sixth annual report, details records of rare birds in 1993: a year with many highlights and much to interest the rare-bird enthusiast. The Committee has again been supported by the sponsorship of Carl Zeiss (Oberko...

Short index of English names of birds

01 December 1960 Comments Editorials This simplified index is confined to the numbers of the first pages of papers, notes and letters on the species concerned. Casual references to other species within the text are not included, nor are birds discussed in reviews or in the "Recent reports an...

Letters

01 December 1960 Comments Letters International ornithological congresses Sirs,--In his review of the Proceedings of the XII International Ornithological Congress {Brit. Birds, 53: 447-452) your reviewer makes some most relevant observations concerning the present nature of these meetings...

Reviews

01 December 1960 Comments Reviews The Isle of May. By W. J. Eggeling. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1960. xiv-j-280 pages; 20 photographic plates, 30s. The firm of Oliver & Boyd has for some time been earning a deservedly high reputation for the publication of natural history books...

Notes

01 December 1960 Comments Notes Aggressive behaviour of Barrow's Goldeneye with young.-- Although Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) does not figure on the British and Irish list, the following notes may be of interest as an instance of an aggressive attitude during the breeding s...

Notes on the behaviour of Whiskered Terns

01 December 1960 Comments Main paper made at a colony of Whiskered Terns {Chlidonias bybridd) at La Tour du Valat in the Camargue, France, during the summer of 1959. My first visit to the colony was on 29th June, by which time there were already some young ones. I thus missed much of the ear...

Studies of less familiar birds 109. Black Wheatear

01 December 1960 Comments Main paper T H E B L A C K W H E A T E A R (Oenantbe leucurd) has a very restricted range in south-west Europe and north-west Africa. In Europe it is confined to Portugal, the southern three-quarters of Spain (including the Balearic Islands) and the small part of so...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

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Notes on the behaviour of Whiskered Terns

Studies of less familiar birds 109. Black Wheatear

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