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Letters

01 November 1994 Comments Letters Origin of European Pink-backed Pelicans. Following the report of a Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Spain (Brit. Birds 86: 374-375), and one near Sagrado, northeast Italy, in September 1992, as well as other observations farther north in Euro...

Reviews

01 November 1994 Comments Reviews Finches and Sparrows: an identification guide. By Peter Clement. Illustrated by Alan Harris & John Davis. Christopher Helm Publishers, London, 1993. 500 pages; 73 colour plates; 44 line-drawings; over 280 distribution maps. ISBN 0-7136-8017-2. £29...

Announcements

01 November 1994 Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report Entries are invited for the fourth annual award (see accounts of the first, second and third awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Br...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

01 November 1994 Comments Main paper This, the Rarities Committee's thirty-sixth annual report, details records of rare birds in 1993: a year with many highlights and much to interest the rare-bird enthusiast. The Committee has again been supported by the sponsorship of Carl Zeiss (Oberko...

Notes

01 July 1958 Comments Notes Magpie burying and recovering food.--With reference to the note by Derek Goodwin on " J a y s and Carrion Crows recovering hidden food" (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 181-183) and other comparable observations, a note on this habit in the Magpie (Pica pica) may...

The Moult migration of the Shelduck from Cheshire in 1957

01 July 1958 Comments Main paper IN 1957, observations were made for the eighth year in succession on the departure flights of Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) from the River Mersey estuary at W e s t o n , near Runcorn, Cheshire, and details are given in Table I. The moult migration in 1955 a...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XC. Frigate Petrel

01 July 1958 Comments Main paper (Plates 41-44) ACCORDING to The Handbook two specimens of the Frigate Petrel (Pelagodroma marina), or White-faced Storm Petrel as it is called in the regions where it breeds, have occurred in Britain. One was found dead at Walney Island, Lancashire, in No...

Mortality of Kittiwakes during the breeding season

01 July 1958 Comments Main paper (Department of Zoology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth) In connection with the survey of winter wrecks of Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) (see pp. 253-266) it is of interest to note that several instances of mass mortality have occurred in recent ...

The wreck of Kittiwakes in Early 1957

01 July 1958 Comments Main paper T H E KITTIWAKE (Rissa tridactyla) is an oceanic bird which breeds along the North Atlantic shores, down to about 40Â°N. At the end of the breeding season the birds move out to the open Atlantic and during the winter months they are found chiefly betwee...

Recent reports and news

01 July 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated, records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...

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