Letters

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...
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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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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...
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Reviews

01 June 1982
Comments Reviews The Plovers, Sandpipers and Snipes of the World. By Paul A. Johnsgard. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London, 1981. 493 pages; 32 colour and 32 black-and-white plates; diagrams, numerous maps and line-drawings. £27.00. We needed a...
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Recent reports

01 June 1982
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records Dates in this report refer to March unless otherwise stated. Until 20th March, the weather was unsettled, with westerlies bringing a series of fronts across the country, and mainly cool air...
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News and comment

01 June 1982
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' Japanese Crested Ibis Sometimes it is nice to be proved wrong! Such was the case over our recent comment (Brit. Birds 75: 187) that the Japanese Crested Ibis can no...
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Announcements

01 June 1982
Comments Editorials New member for Rarities Committee The votes of the regional bird recorders and bird observatories in the election for a new member of the Rarities Committee (Brit. Birds 74: 314) were: K. E. Vinicombe 32, C. S. Waller 19. Thus, Keith Vinicombe ...
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Diary dates

01 June 1982
Comments Editorials 20th July BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. T. M. Gullick on 'Birds in central Spain'. Central London. Non-members should write (enclosing SAE) at least two weeks before to Hon. Secretary, R. E. F. Peal, 2 Chestnut Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent TN 13 3AR. ...
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Letters

01 June 1982
Comments Letters Daily weather summaries I noticed, in your February issue (Brit. Birds 75: 100), a reference to the demise of the Daily Weather Report, which in fact occurred at the end of 1980. The Meteorological Office is, however, now not without a daily re...
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