ICBP news

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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Reviews

01 October 1984
Comments Reviews Tunnicliffe's Birds: measured drawings in colour by C. F. Tunnicliffe RA. Gollancz, London, 1984. 160 pages; 79 colour plates. £40.00. If one were to conduct a random survey among wildlife artists and connoisseurs, to find who was deemed 'the gre...
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Recent Reports

01 October 1984
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to July unless stated otherwise. Weather The weather during July was dominated by anticyclones. One centred close by to the west at the start of the m...
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News and comment

01 October 1984
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. USSR society. We are grateful to Mike Wilson for bringing to our attention the formation earlier this year of a new 'All-Union Ornithological Society', after an in...
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Request

01 October 1984
Comments Editorials Photographs of wheatears. For a forthcoming paper on 'Field identification of West Palearctic wheatears' by Peter Clement and Dr Lin Cornwallis, photographs--black-and-white prints, colour transparencies (preferably originals on loan) and colour prints...
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