Recent reports

01 August 1996
Comments News and comment Madeira/Cape Verde/Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma madeira/P. feae/P. mollis Porthgwarra (Cornwall), 11th June. Frigatebird Fregata One from fishing boat east of Raven Point (Co. Wexford), 16th June. Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides Ballycotton (Co. Cor...
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News and comment

01 August 1996
Comments News and comment The deliberate placing of poisons in the countryside with die intention of killing wildlife must be one of the most horrendous environmental crimes. A recent report by the Environmental Panel of the Pesticides Advisory Panel indicated that almost one-t...
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Monthly marathon

01 August 1996
Comments Other The eighth 'Marathon' has been won, and the ninth 'Marathon' has now started. The rules have now been relaxed (see Brit. Birds 39: 333). The passerine in plate 90 was named by competitors as Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus (50%), Wood Warbler P. ...
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Announcements

01 August 1996
Comments Editorials Thanks to Carl Zeiss Ltd, the winner of the Carl Zeiss Award will be able to choose as his or her prize a pair of traditional Zeiss 10 X 40 binoculars or 7 X 42 binoculars, or the new 'Night Owl' 7 X 42 binoculars. The presentation will take place at t...
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Requests

01 August 1996
Comments Editorials For future features in British Birds, we seek original transparencies, colour prints or black-and-white prints of the following: Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus (in flight Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus (interesting from below) behaviour) Ruddy Sh...
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Letters

01 August 1996
Comments Letters The recent British Ornithologists' Union conference on 'Feral and introduced birds' prompted Holmes & Stroud (1995) to suggest a possible set of standard terms for describing the status of naturalised birds. Indeed, these terms could equally apply ...
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Notes

01 August 1996
Comments Notes BWP (vol. 5) gives the breeding season of Dupont's Lark Chersophilus duponti as March-May, but does not describe the incubation period or the appearance of the nestlings. On 18th June 1990, near Belchite, Spain, I found an adult Dupont's Lark incubatin...
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Mystery photographs

01 August 1996
Comments Main paper The aims of this feature, which we inaugurated almost 20 years ago, in December 1976 (Brit. Birds 69: 495), have been not only to provide an entertaining puzzle, but also to focus attention on a series of identification problems, with instructive and e...
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