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01 November 1991 Comments Editorials In response to a request from the International Council for Bird Preservation, we shall be publishing a regular short feature on international bird conservation topics, in addition to those which we have always included in 'News and comment'. EDS. ...

Fieldwork action

01 November 1991 Comments Editorials Regional Development Officers. During 1992-93, the BTO will be setting up a new regional network. This will consist of BTO members keen to promote the BTO at the local level in a systematic way. The new volunteers will be called Regional Development Of...

Letter

01 November 1991 Comments Letters Identification of Meadow and Red-throated Pipits. In a 'Mystery photographs' text {Brit. Birds 79: 34-40), the late P.J. Grant discussed the identification of Meadow Anthus pratensis and Red-throated Pipits A. cervinus, prompted by a series of photogra...

Notes

01 November 1991 Comments Notes Herons alighting on sea. On 31st August 1985, from the Zuluf offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf, N. J. S. Drummond and I observed a migrating flight of seven Purple Herons Ardea purpurea flying very low over the sea. One of them suddenly a...

Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1991 Comments Other ' Mr W. J. E. Dawson states that he discovered a pair of Lanius collurio near Athlone about the end of April, 1916. Mr Dawson has kindly sent us further details of the birds he saw and we feel sure from what he says that he was mistaken in his identifi...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1990

01 November 1991 Comments Main paper Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1990. This is the thirty-third annual report of the Rarities Committee, and for the ninth consecutive year Carl Zeiss-Germany has sponsored the Committee's work. We are most appreciative of this financial assist...

Monthly marathon

01 December 1986 Comments Other The third photograph (plate 262 in the September issue) was clearly trickier to identify than was either of the first two (Skylark 68% right and Brambling 87% right). Entrants identified it as: Bluethroat Luscinia svecica (45%) Sedge W'arbler Acrocepha...

Corrections

01 December 1986 Comments Editorials Vol 78 Pages 422 PLUMAGE, AGE AND MOULT TERMINOLOGY Plate 200 shows an adult winter (not a first-winter) Dunlin Calidris alpina. 486 PARROT CROSSBILLS IN BRITAIN Line 22: 'Tyne & Wear' should read 'Durham'. 522 RECEN...

PhotoSpot. 21. Desert Finch

01 December 1986 Comments Main paper On moderate views, the Desert Finch Rhodospiza obsoleta is just another sombrely coloured desert bird (plate 356), so that the first close views of one can come as quite a surprise--or at least they did to me--when they show a striking and beautifully ...

If the caption fits

01 December 1986 Comments Editorials This new, occasional, short feature will show one of the photographs submitted to British Birds which we feel demands to have an appropriately humorous or irreverent caption. We shall suggest ours, but hope that readers will react by coming up with an ...

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