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Looking back

01 June 2000 Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Occurrence of the Bohemian Waxwing [Bombycilla garrulus] near London.-I have notices of this bird having been killed last week [in mid January 1850] in many localities round London: Harrow-on-the-Hill, Kilburn (seven s...

Keeping albatrossesoff the hook

01 June 2000 Comments Main paper Simple Simon met a fisherman, Going to the Fair. Said Simple Simon to the fisherman: "What have you got there?" "Albatrosses." his year, the British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland Water will donate all its profits to the Seabird Conservation Programme of...

Bird Photograph of the Year

01 June 2000 Comments Main paper One of the most enjoyable days of the year, for the judges involved, came around once again. This is the competition's twenty-fourth year. After an initial scan to assess the general standard (phenomenally high!), we slowly projected all the entries, e...

Letters

01 June 2000 Comments Letters ...

Identification and ageing of Black-browed Albatross at sea

01 June 2000 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris is the most frequently recorded of all vagrant albatrosses in the North Atlantic.This paper provides guidelines to identify the species and to help in ageing immatures at sea.The Black-browed Alb...

Recent reports

01 June 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 17th April to 15th May 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Between Catfirth and South Nesting (Shetland), 24th April; Gruinard Bay (Highland), 3rd May; Sound of Barra (Western Isles), 6th May; off...

Reviews

01 June 2000 Comments Reviews THE HOBBY By Anthony Chapman. Arlequin Press, 1999. 220 pages; 16 tables; 7 figures; 18 colour plates. ISBN 1-900159-26-0. Hardback, £19.95. As a group of birds, raptors have always been firm favourites with birders. It is hardly surprising therefore ...

News and Comment

01 June 2000 Comments News and comment The British Ornithologists' Union is inviting applications and nominations for new members of its Records Committee (BOURC) to succeed Ken Shaw (who retires in April 2000) and Dr Alan Knox (who retires in April 2001).The term of office is usually eight...

Rarities Committee news

01 June 2000 Comments News and comment In September 1999, we asked for nominations for election to become the next member of the BBRC. We explained at the time that, should no suitable candidate be proposed, the longestser ving member, Grahame Walbridge, had agreed to waive his automatic en...

Monthly marathon

01 June 2000 Comments Other In theory, identification of April's wader (plate 117, repeated here as plate 180) should be fairly straightforward. It is obviously small and, judging by the colour and extent of the hooded appearance, it is in summer plumage. The upstretched wing is,...

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