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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;...

Recent Reports

01 July 1977 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers April and the first part of May and, except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to April. Spring arrivals Until 15th, the weather was most unsuitab...

Autumn migration summary

01 July 1977 Comments Editorials Autumn 1976 will be remembered as yet another exceptional period for rarities, probably rivalling 1975 for the number and quality of passerine vagrants. These records, however, will be dealt with in the 'Report on rare birds' for 1976, so I shall not b...

News and Comment

01 July 1977 Comments News and comment 'Bird Photograph of the Year' Michael Wilkes, whose photograph of a Nightingale won the 1976 award (Brit. Birds 70: 133), has been kept rather busy recently. He was interviewed on 'Today' (Radio 4) on the day of the presentation by Sir Peter Scott (pla...

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