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Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Monthly Marathon

01 February 1996 Comments Other With Christmas and New Year postal delays still affecting incoming mail from overseas, even in mid January, we are extending the deadline for receipt of entries for the fourth stage of the current Marathon (December's plate 221). So far, seven species ...

Looking Back

01 February 1996 Comments Other Fifty years ago, a Note reported on: 'COMMON GULLS NESTING ON BIRCH TREES. In June, 1945, during a period of leave spent on Upper Deeside (Aberdeenshire), I noted on several occasions Common Gulls (Larus c. canus), perching on trees near the...

Field Identification of Little and Baillon's Crakes

01 February 1996 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The two small European crakes, Little Crake Porzana parva and Baillon's Crake P. pusilla, usually provide only fleeting views. It is, therefore, very important for observers to know and to concentrate instantly on the diagnostic features, whic...

Minutes of 3rd Conference of European Rarities Committees

01 February 1996 Comments Main paper A total of 28 participants from 16 countries attended the meeting of the Association of European Rarities Committees held in Kecskemet, Hungary, during 26th-28th August 1995 (plate 20). For the next two years, the secretariat of the AERC will be based ...

Recent reports

01 February 1996 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 18th December 1995 to 14th January 1996. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Still present at Nimmo's P...

News And Comment

01 February 1996 Comments News and comment Ask most birders about the National Trust (NT) and they will no doubt have an image of stately homes and gardens--and without doubt that is very much the picture the Trust has presented of itself over the last 100 years since it was established in 1895...

Notes

01 February 1996 Comments Notes I read with great interest the paper by Dr Richard Chandler and Hadoram Shirihai (Brit. Birds 88: 136-140) concerning female Kentish Plovers Charadrius alexandrinus with complete breast-bands. In April 1994, I encountered three similar individual Kenti...

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