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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...

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...

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...

Studies of less familiar birds. 144. Thick-billed Warbler

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper 1955 a bird with some resemblance to a Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus was captured on Fair Isle, Shetland, and proved to be a Thick-billed Warbler Phragmaticola aedon*, a vagrant from south-east Asia not previously found in Europe (William*T...

Swifts in sea-breeze fronts

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper G L I D E R P I L O T S often find themselves sharing rising currents of air with birds, sometimes to considerable heights. A source of upcurrents which has been found and used more extensively in recent years is the rising air at the sea-breeze front. Tw...

Reviews

01 June 1967 Comments Reviews Animal Navigation. By R. M. Lockley. Pan Books, London, 1967. 205 pages; 25 text-figures. 6s. Ornithologists are apt to think of animal navigation as being about the spectacular homing journeys of birds. In this book the author interprets the term very br...

Notes

01 June 1967 Comments Notes Barn Owl perching on man.--On 14th December 1966, at 3 p.m., I was digging a ditch on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' reserve at Leighton Moss, Lancashire, when I saw a Barn Owl Tjto alba hunting along the hedgerow. It soon dropped on to a ...

Territory, behaviour and breeding of the Dipper in Banffshire

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper September 1959 and December 1964 27 adult and 38 nestling Dippers Cinclus cinclus were colour-ringed on the River Isla in Banffshire to investigate their behaviour and movements. Work on this species by Balat (1962, 1964) in Czechoslovakia and on the Amer...

News and comment

01 June 1967 Comments News and comment launches major appeal fund.--With an eye set firmly on a target of £100,000, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has now launched what must surely be the most ambitious appeal fund ever made by- a voluntary natural history body in this co...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

Studies of less familiar birds. 144. Thick-billed Warbler

Swifts in sea-breeze fronts

Reviews

Notes

Territory, behaviour and breeding of the Dipper in Banffshire

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