Monthly marathon

01 November 1986
Comments Other The bird in the second photograph (Brit. Birds 79: 418, plate 223) was identified by competition entrants as follows: Brambling Fringilla montifringilla (87%) Chaffinch F. coelebs (6%) Siskin Carduelis spinus (2%) House Sparrow Passer domesticus (2%) C...
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Recent reports

01 November 1986
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to August unless otherwise stated. Weather and displaced migrants For most of the month, the weather was unsettled. Atlantic depressions tracked...
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News and comment

01 November 1986
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds', Slaughter of Honey Buzzards continues. Italiana Protezione Uccelli (LIPU). In early May, I joined other foreign delegates Conference on the Protection of Birds of ...
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Reviews

01 November 1986
Comments Reviews Birds of Iceland. By Hjalmar R. Bardarson. Hjalmar R. Bardarson, Reykjavik, 1986. 336 pages; 392 colour plates; many black-and-white illustrations; some line-drawings. Icelandic kronur 2220.00 (approx. £36.00).This is not just a book about Iceland's b...
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Requests

01 November 1986
Comments Editorials Resubscription urgency. If your subscription runs from January to December and you want to receive your January 1987 issue in January, please resubscribe NOW (or before the end of November at the latest). The end-of-the-year rush creates a mountain of ...
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Announcements

01 November 1986
Comments Editorials The Joint 'BB'-BTO Conference. We hope that many BB subscribers will attend this conference at Swanwick, Derbyshire, during 10th-12th April 1987. A booking form is inserted in this issue. The programme includes the following speakers: Tony Marr on 'Bri...
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Letters

01 November 1986
Comments Letters Depths to which auks dive. With reference to the recent note on 'Razorbill [Alca torda] swimming at depth of 140 m' (Brit. Birds 79: 339), I draw attention to a paper published in The Auk last year on 'Diving depths of four alcids' by John F. Piatt and...
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Notes

01 November 1986
Comments Notes Squacco Heron eating passerines. On 11th April 1984, at Eilat, Israel, I watched a Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides catching passerines in a field of alfalfa. In one hour of only intermittent observation, three birds were seen to be caught and swallowed...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1986
Comments Main paper The size and structure of last month's mystery bird (plate 264, repeated here) are obviously those of a warbler. The combination of generally unmarked upperparts, rather small bill, noticeable supercilium and non-rounded tail suggests a Phylloscopus. I...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1986
Comments Other 'THE "BRITISH BIRDS" MARKING SCHEME, PROGRESS FOR 1911 AND SOME RESULTS BY H. F. WITHERBY. Once again I am able to report decided progress in the work of our enthusiastic band of "ringers". The number of birds marked has steadily increased until t...
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