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Best recent black-and-white bird-photographs

01 October 1991 Comments Main paper In recent years, it has become clear that most bird-photographers work in colour, and, as a consequence, the number submitting prints for consideration for this feature has fallen. There still remains a number of aficionados, however, who enjoy working...

Eastern vagrants in Britain in autumn 1988

01 October 1991 Comments Main paper The autumn of 1988 was remarkable for the arrival of eastern Palearctic vagrant passerines in Britain (Rogers et al. 1989), and second only to 1982 in numbers (see Howey & Bell 1985). Of those central Asian passerines whose breeding range is no clo...

The 'British Birds' Best Bird Book of the Year

01 October 1991 Comments Main paper For the benefit of those who may wish to acquire (or give as a present) just one of the many bird books published each year, British Birds selects annually its choice of the 'Best Bird Book of the Year' from those reviewed in the journal during the pre...

Identification of Spectacled Warbler

01 October 1991 Comments Main paper The British Birds Rarities Committee has recently re-assessed all previously accepted records of Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata in Britain. None remains acceptable after review, although some recent claims are still being considered. An explan...

Mystery photographs

01 October 1991 Comments Main paper Our mystery bird (plate 205, repeated here) is obviously a fairly large raptor, flying with wings held up in a shallow V. This posture is highly suggestive of either the true buzzards Buteo or the harriers Circus, both of which are noted for their...

Viewpoint. Birds and some political influences

01 October 1991 Comments Main paper Both the public and the private agencies concerned with the countryside and the protection of birds and their habitats have a good--even brilliant in parts--record over the past decade or so. Every advantage has been taken of the full flooding of the t...

Status of Spectacled Warbler in Britain

01 October 1991 Comments Main paper At one time there were three accepted records of Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata in Britain: Spurn, Humberside (then Yorkshire), 21st-31st October 1968, trapped 21st (Brit. Birds 62: 479; 71: 53-58); Porthgwarra, Cornwall, male, 17th October 19...

Migrants through Malta and Gozo: October, 1941 to July, 1945

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper In Autumn 1941 and spring 1945, I had an opportunity of noting the comings and goings of migrants through the islands of Malta and Gozo. The vast majority of the birds seen were British birds, in so far as they are on the British List, and were passage...

Territory in the Ringed Plover

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper IN July, 1944, I had an opportunity of studying the territorial behaviour of Ringed Plover (Charadrius h. hiaticula), at Malahide, Co. Dublin, where large numbers nest in and around the tern colony. The conditions for observation were exceptionally fav...

Notes on the birds of Abberton Reservoir, Esses

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper ...

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