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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...

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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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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

01 November 1994 Comments Main paper This, the Rarities Committee's thirty-sixth annual report, details records of rare birds in 1993: a year with many highlights and much to interest the rare-bird enthusiast. The Committee has again been supported by the sponsorship of Carl Zeiss (Oberko...

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01 December 1977 Comments Editorials Reduced subscription rates By using special forms obtainable through their local organisations, members of the following clubs and societies can now or will soon be able to subscribe to British Birds for £6.00 instead of the standard £8.00 pe...

Letters

01 December 1977 Comments Letters Black-headed Gulls foot-paddling on grassland Joh. J. Frieswijk's letter (Brit. Birds 70: 266), recording frequent observations of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus foot-paddling on grassland in the Netherlands, contrasted with my note drawin...

Reviews

01 December 1977 Comments Reviews Minsmere. Portrait of a Bird Reserve. By Herbert Axell. Hutchinson, London, 1977. 256 pages; 45 colour and 71 black-and-white photographs; many line-drawings and maps. £7.50 The Minsmere reserve of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds...

Notes

01 December 1977 Comments Notes Great Crested Grebes breeding on rivers Bruce Campbell and James Ferguson-Lees (1971, A Field Guide to Birds' Nests) stated that Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus occasionally breed on stretches of slow-flowing rivers. In the 1970s, in Bu...

Obituaries: David Morrison Reid-Henry (1919-1977) , Richard Allan Richardson (1922-1977)

01 December 1977 Comments Obituaries When David Reid-Henry died on 26th September in Salisbury, Rhodesia, the world lost, to my mind, its fmest modern bird artist. He was only 58 and at the peak of his profession; scores of half-finished paintings will now never be completed by this man o...

Palearctic bird sound recordings

01 December 1977 Comments Main paper This latest instalment of the discography again draws attention to recordings of particular value t o the field ornithologist and to interesting trends in the selection or presentation of bird sounds on disc, cassette or tape Throughout t...

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Obituaries: David Morrison Reid-Henry (1919-1977) , Richard Allan Richardson (1922-1977)

Palearctic bird sound recordings

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