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News and comment

01 November 1992 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Rarities Committee Identification Meeting. In addition to its annual meeting, at which policy and other general matters are discussed (e.g. see Brit. Birds 85...

Announcements

01 November 1992 Comments Editorials We are pleased to announce that, in a new co-operative agreement, Subbuteo Natural History Books Ltd of North Wales has taken on the supply and despatch of all mail-order books included each month in our British BirdShop pages. Subbuteo N H B Ltd is we...

The Carl Zeiss award

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper All colour transparencies, colour prints and black-and-white prints which circulated to the Rarities Committee in support of records during the past year were considered for this annual Award, announced last December (Brit. Birds 84: 589). The four sho...

Fieldwork action BTO news

01 November 1992 Comments Editorials Sahel drought and migratory birds. As a British Birder, you may be surprised to learn of the ways by which you can make a contribution towards understanding the consequences of the drought in Africa for some of our migratory birds that pass the winter ...

Seventy-five years age

01 November 1992 Comments Other 'ON NEWLY DISCOVERED IRISH COLONIES OF ROSEATE AND SANDWICH TERNS by C.J. CARROLL. In the course of various trips through Ireland I have reached, from time to time, the breeding haunts of several rare species, but my red-letter day occurred this season...

Letters

01 November 1992 Comments Letters Shell identification. May I respectfully point out that the bivalve shell attached to the bill of a Dunlin Calidris alpina in plate 111 is not a cockle Cardium, but looks very like a thick trough shell Spisula solida. This species has a much thick...

Notes

01 November 1992 Comments Notes Kingfisher apparently feeding on blackberries. At 05.10 GMT on 16th August 1988, while I was erecting mistnets at a scrubland site in Southampton Docks, an adult male Kingfisher Alcedo atthis flew from brambles Rubus fruticosus into one of the nets. Th...

Reviews

01 November 1992 Comments Reviews Checklist of Birds of Britain and Ireland. 6th edn. Compiled by A. G. Knox for the Records Committee of the British Ornidiologists' Union. BOU, Tring, 1992. 50 pages; 15 line-drawings. Paperback £4.95.The sixth edition of the BOU's Checklist of Birds ...

Photospot. 33. White-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon smymensis

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper With a vast breeding range--extending from Turkey, Israel and Egypt in the west to China and Taiwan in the east, and south to Sri Lanka, Java and the Philippines--it is hardly surprising uhat this species has acquired a variety ofEnglish names. BWP cho...

Recent reports

01 November 1992 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 4th September to 15th October 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris Isles of Scilly, 10th September; off Portland Cliffi (Dorset), 7th October. So...

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