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Golden-winged Warbler: new to the Western Paleartic

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper On 24th January 1989, Mrs C. Miller noticed a colourful bird feeding in the garden of her house at Larkfield, Kent. Though not a birdwatcher, she realised that it was unusual, and made a drawing of it. Three days later, it reappeared, and Mr Miller man...

Mystery photographs

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper Even with it in silhouette, the majority of readers would surely recognise the dagger-like bill, flat crown with crest, fairly elongated wings and shortish tarsi of last month's mystery bird (plate 254, reproduced here in black-and-white) as a ter...

Identification pitfalls and assessment problems. 14. Crane Grus grus

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper This series, which started in January 1983 (Brit. Birds 76: 26-28), is not intended to cover all facets of the identification of the species concerned, but only the major sources of error likely to mislead the observer in the field or the person attemp...

Dispersal and age to first breeding of Buzzards in central Wales

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper During the four years 1975-78, we studied the ecology of carrion-feeding birds in the uplands of Central Wales. The Buzzard Buteo buteo was one of the species investigated. Most of our observations were made within a defined study area, about 35 km fro...

Best recent black-and-white bird-photographs

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper Those of us involved in the judging regard it as a pleasure and a rare privilege to view the submissions of photographers for the twin features of 'Bird Photograph of the Year' and 'Best recent black-and-white bird-photographs'. Normally, we look at th...

The Carl Zeiss award

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper All colour transparencies, colour prints and black-and-white prints which circulated to the Rarities Committee in support of records during the past year were considered for this annual Award, announced last December (Brit. Birds 84: 589). The four sho...

Photospot. 33. White-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon smymensis

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper With a vast breeding range--extending from Turkey, Israel and Egypt in the west to China and Taiwan in the east, and south to Sri Lanka, Java and the Philippines--it is hardly surprising uhat this species has acquired a variety ofEnglish names. BWP cho...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper ...

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