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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Recent Reports

01 June 1991
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 12th April to 9th May 1991 (February to 9th May for common migrants; first date listed is date of first report). These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black Stork Ciconia nigra Sko...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1991
Comments Other When Steve Young supplied the transparency of the wader featured as the sixth stage in this 'Marathon' (plate 7), the competition's compiler queried the photographer's identification, since the bird was 'obviously' a Little Stint Calidris minuta and no...
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News and Comment

01 June 1991
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Timothy Andrews and Michael Entwistle. With great regret, we must report that news from Peru has confirmed that both birders were killed (see previous reports, Bri...
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Announcements

01 June 1991
Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year. As in other recent years, entrants had to submit their field notebooks for the judges' perusal. The winners and runners-up in the 1990 competition, organised as usual by the Young Ornithologists' Club and sponsored by ...
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