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Editorial Board Changes

01 June 1998 Comments Editorials Editorial Board changes. We invited applications to join the Editorial Board (Brit. Birds 91: 1) and we are delighted to announce that, from those received, the Board has been expanded to include three new members, all initially for one year. Ian Carte...

Announcements

01 June 1998 Comments Editorials British Birds relies on subscription income, advertisement income, sponsorship support and donations. Anyone wishing to help BB can make a donation (small or large!), either for a specific purpose in BB's current expenditure or for our Investment Fund,...

Spectacled Warbler in North Yorkshire: new to Britain and Ireland

01 June 1998 Comments Open Access ...

Monthly marathon

01 June 1998 Comments Other We have a winner! A new 'Marathon' starts now. Read on. The preening bird (plate 30) was named as: Little Crake Porzana parva (24%), Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago (23%), Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (13%), Pectoral Sandpiper C. melanotos (12%)...

Bird Photograph of the Year

01 June 1998 Comments Main paper Our system of judging has become established over the past 22 years. First, we project all the entries in quick succession, so that the judges get a 'feel' for the general standard. Secondly, we take a more leisurely look at each transparency, and, if ...

Looking Back

01 June 1998 Comments Other Fifty years ago: 'From the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland . . . Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristatd) were seen wherever we stayed and often bred within a hundred yards of us, but always o...

Breeding Marsh Harriers in the United Kingdom, 1983-95

01 June 1998 Comments Main paper Marsh Harriers Circus aeruginosus became extinct as breeding birds in Britain in 1899. There were just three isolated nesting attempts (two successful) between then and recolonisation from 1927 onwards, and none outside Norfolk until 1945. From a peak ...