Letters

01 November 1994
Comments Letters Origin of European Pink-backed Pelicans. Following the report of a Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Spain (Brit. Birds 86: 374-375), and one near Sagrado, northeast Italy, in September 1992, as well as other observations farther north in Euro...
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Reviews

01 November 1994
Comments Reviews Finches and Sparrows: an identification guide. By Peter Clement. Illustrated by Alan Harris & John Davis. Christopher Helm Publishers, London, 1993. 500 pages; 73 colour plates; 44 line-drawings; over 280 distribution maps. ISBN 0-7136-8017-2. £29...
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Announcements

01 November 1994
Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report Entries are invited for the fourth annual award (see accounts of the first, second and third awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Br...
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Reviews

01 September 1981
Comments Reviews Usborne Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe. By Rob Hume, Usborne, London, 1981. 128 pages; colour and black-and-white illustrations on 119 pages. Hardback, £3.99; paperback, £2.50.  Beginners will find this a splendid book. Indeed, it ...
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Short reviews

01 September 1981
Comments Reviews Pigeon Racing: advanced techniques. By Jan Aerts. (Faber & Faber, 1981. £2.50) Paperback version of 1969 book. Illustrated Guide to Birds and Birdwatching. By Neil Ardley. (Ward Lock, 1980. £6.95) A curate's egg of a book, but one is left...
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Recent reports

01 September 1981
Comments News and comment June, to which all dates in this report refer, continued a fascinating spring into a remarkable summer for unusual birds. It is all too easy to forget the excitement of rarities these days--to many birdwatchers, perhaps, the birds are still unlikely to...
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News and comment

01 September 1981
Comments News and comment International ornithological politics Jeffery Boswall has gleaned the following information from The Daily Telegraph (15th June), J o Grimmond on the Wildlife and Countryside Bill: 'If it becomes law you may shoot the Redshank and Curlew. I do ...
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Announcements

01 September 1981
Comments Editorials Peterson Sound Guide: discs and cassettes This superb set of recordings (A Field Guide to the Bird Songs of Britain and Europe by Sture Palmer and Jeffery Boswall) is now available on four packs of four cassettes as well as on 15 LPs. It provid...
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BB'-Sunbird Tour of Thailand

01 September 1981
Comments Main paper If you might be interested in joining this trip in February 1982, please write now to Sunbird Holidays (address below). The tour will be accompanied by BB's managing editor, Dr J. T. R. Sharrock, and all profits from BB subscribers will be donated by S...
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