Species and subspecies

01 February 1994
Comments Main paper Over 40 years ago, Bernard Tucker, then the editor of British Birds and one of the four compilers of the 'Witherby' Handbook, started a long paper which ran over several issues of this journal with the words:'There are good reasons for considering that...
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Announcements

01 February 1994
Comments Editorials Manx bird stamps SPECIAL OFFER. The Isle of Man Post Office, which has sponsored the colour plates in the paper on White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis in this issue (pages 83-86), is making a special offer available to British Birds readers. The fol...
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News and comment

01 February 1994
Comments News and comment AT A RSPB CONFERENCE in early November, Environment Secretary John N Gummer announced that 26 projects were to be funded--to the tune of £3.3 million--under the Government's Darwin Initiative. This sounds like a good start: the Initiative began at the...
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Notes

01 February 1994
Comments Notes Little Grebes 'flycatching' Towards dusk on 3rd April 1991, on the Gibside estate, Tyne & Wear. I watched a pair of little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis catching flies. They moved around on the surface of an old fish pond at an extraordinary s...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1994
Comments Other The back view of December's wader (Brit. Birds 86: plate 230) was named as: Sanderling Calidris alba (39%), Semipalmated Sandpiper C. pusilla (31%) and little Stint C. minuta (27%), with a few votes for Baird's Sandpiper C. bairdii and Western San...
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