BirdLife International news

01 April 1993
Comments Editorials Polish promise. In February, the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP) recruited its 1,000th member, just one year alter its formal launch in February 1992. I( also produced the first issue of its membership magazine. These excellent a...
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Announcements

01 April 1993
Comments Editorials Carl Zeiss Award. Carl Zelss-Germany, the sponsor of the British Birds Rarities Committee, has announced an extension of the Carl Zeiss Award. The high quality, sew-on, woven badges provided in recognition of the contributions made by photographers who...
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News and Comment

01 April 1993
Comments News and comment WITHIN A FORTNIGHT of the tanker Braer going aground near Sumburgh Head, Shetland, 1,000 birds had been picked up dead, well over 200 had been rescued alive and many more had been seen oiled. Half the victims were Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis, ...
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Reviews

01 April 1993
Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol 1. Ostrich to ducks. Edited by Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot & Jordi Sargatal. Lynx Editions, Barcelona, 1992. 696 pages; 446 colour plates; 568 distribution maps. ISBN 84-87334-09-1. £95.00.With various han...
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Letters

01 April 1993
Comments Letters Tree Swallow records in Britain. Whilst reading the recent report on 'Rare birds in Great Britain' (Brit. Birds 85: 507-554), I was surprised to read, under the 1990 Isles of Scilly record of Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor, the comment that it w...
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Notes

01 April 1993
Comments Notes Merlin stalking Dunlins on foot. On 7th November 1988, on the northern coast of the Eiderstedt peninsula, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, a Merlin Falco columbarius attracted my attention. It left its perch on a wooden post, flew a short distance and...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 1993
Comments Other The grebe in backview (plate 8) was named as: Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena (39%) Slavonian Grebe P. auritus (36%) Black-necked Grebe P. nigricollis (25%) It was a Slavonian Grebe, photographed in Lancashire in March 1990 by Steve Young. Of the l...
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Product reports

01 April 1993
Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 April 1993
Comments Other 'A Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti was trapped at a locality in southern England on 22nd July 1967 and then retrapped on 9th September; at the request of those concerned, locality and names of observers are being suppressed for the time being. All these r...
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