Announcements

01 January 1994
Comments Editorials Bird Photograph of the Year This annual competition is once again sponsored by two longstanding friends of British Birds, the publishing firms Christopher Helm (Publishers) and HarperCollins' Entrants should read the rules carefully (see Brit. Birds 84...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 1994
Comments Other In this competition, you could win a SUNBIRD birdwatching holiday of your choice, in America, Africa or Asia. Just identify the bird each month and add up your scores when you are correct. The first person to reach a total of 500 will win. (Please read...
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The new breeding bird Survey

01 January 1994
Comments Main paper How are the numbers of British nesting birds changing? Where should we look for the reasons for upward or downward population trends? Is there anything we can do to influence those trends? Every birdwatcher should be aware that these are vitally import...
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Requests

01 January 1994
Comments Editorials Dark-rumped petrels. For a forthcoming paper on unidentified dark-rumped petrels, Stephen Morrison would like to receive all records of these enigmas seen in the northeast Atlantic. Details required should include at least the following: location and d...
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Pollutants in Great Bitterns

01 January 1994
Comments Main paper Within its localised reed-bed habitat, the Great Bittern Botaurus stellaris has declined in Britain in recent decades, even though its main breeding haunts are protected as reserves (Day & Wilson 1978; Smith & Tyler 1993). The reasons for the d...
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Photographic requirements

01 January 1994
Comments Editorials Photographs needed, please. For forthcoming papers, we need original colour transparencies, colour prints or black-and-white prints of the following species: Gyr Falcon Falco rusticolus (ID, all plumages) Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva (ID,...
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