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Subscription Changes

01 August 1984 Comments Editorials Our major costs--printing and paper--are rising at considerably more than the rate of inflation, but the current success of BB has enabled us to keep this year's annual subscription increase down to less than 4.8%. We have retained the reduced subscrip...

Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 August 1984 Comments Other 'On June 27th last I saw on the Bempton Cliffs an undoubted example of Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria bruennichi). I saw this bird several times as it always returned to the same ledge in company with a Common Guillemot, and it was not more than 40 or 50 ...

Points of View. 9. A kindly word

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper A kindly word. Upstaging fellow devotees became respectable when Stephen Potter produced his Lifemanship and Oneupmanship books. Some readers may remember the late James Fisher reviewing the 'Birdmanship' chapter in one of the old 'Birds in Bri...

Mystery Photographs

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper The hooded gull in last month's mystery photograph (plate 112, repeated here as plate 134) was present at Radipole, Dorset, on 13th April 1980. The picture was taken by Brian Holmes, and is one of a series taken by him and other photographers...

Photospot. 5 Pygmy Owl

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper Despite being the smallest European owl, little larger than a Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula, the Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum is a true owl in every respect. When excited, it jerks its tail sideways, and after alighting in a tree it usually cocks it u...

Product Reports

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...

Identification of Juvenile Yellow-legged Herring Gulls

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper With the northwards extension of the breeding and non-breeding ranges of the west Mediterranean yellow-legged race of the Herring Gull Larus argentatus michahellis* in recent years (Nicolau-Guillaumet 1977; de Heer 1981; Devillers & Potvliege 1981;...

August reports

01 November 1974 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records August was dominated by weather from the Atlantic, a series of depressions crossing Britain and producing generally cool and unsettled conditions with temperatures below average and rainfal...

News and comment

01 November 1974 Comments News and comment Rookery census The last national survey of the British Rook population was undertaken by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1945; much data was gathered (and is still on file), though rather little was published. Various local surveys carried...

Letters

01 November 1974 Comments Letters Oiled seabirds successfully cleaning their plumage I was interested to read the note by T. R. Birkhead, Clare Lloyd and P. Corkhill concerning the successful cleaning of oiled plumage by seabirds (Brit. Birds, 66: 535-537). Instances of this be...

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