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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...

List of county and regional recorders in Britain and Ireland

01 July 1973 Comments Editorials The main aims of this list of bird recorders and editors are to ensure that observers on holiday away from their home areas send records to the right people, to encourage co-operation at the inter-county and intra-county levels, and to provide a source...

Recent reports

01 July 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned with March and April, with a separate analysis of arrivals of some commoner migrants and summer visitors. The first week of March was wet generally, but from about...

News and comment

01 July 1973 Comments News and comment A.O.U. bird name changes The Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union assumes one function that its British counterpart does not--namely, the determination of official vernacular names. In the...

Requests for information

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Reviews

01 July 1973 Comments Reviews The Naturalist in the Isle of Man. By Larch S. Garrad. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972.234 pages; 29 photographs; 12 maps. £3.75. To one whose earlier and more leisurely days were spent dabbling in Manx natural history and folk-culture, ...

Notes

01 July 1973 Comments Notes Buzzard and Golden Eagle feeding on other avian predators On 2nd July 1972, near Appin, Argyll, we found an unusual food item at a nest of Buzzards Buteo buteo. Beside the nearly fledged young Buzzard were the fresh remains of a young Tawny Owl...

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