Northern Mockingbirds in Britain

01 August 1996
Comments Main paper The identifications of four separate Northern Mockingbirds Mimus polyglottos--in Norfolk in August 1971, in West Glamorgan in July-August 1978, in Cornwall in August 1982 and in Essex in May 1988--have been accepted by the British Birds Rarities Commit...
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Looking Back

01 August 1996
Comments Other Fifty years ago: 'On 3rd August 1946, D. E. Sergeant and R. A. Hinde noticed an unfamiliar warbler in a sallow bush on the edge of a large reed-bed. Only a few short views of the bird were obtained, but it was seen to have a very dark crown and a very ...
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Subscription Changes

01 August 1984
Comments Editorials Our major costs--printing and paper--are rising at considerably more than the rate of inflation, but the current success of BB has enabled us to keep this year's annual subscription increase down to less than 4.8%. We have retained the reduced subscrip...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 August 1984
Comments Other 'On June 27th last I saw on the Bempton Cliffs an undoubted example of Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria bruennichi). I saw this bird several times as it always returned to the same ledge in company with a Common Guillemot, and it was not more than 40 or 50 ...
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Mystery Photographs

01 August 1984
Comments Main paper The hooded gull in last month's mystery photograph (plate 112, repeated here as plate 134) was present at Radipole, Dorset, on 13th April 1980. The picture was taken by Brian Holmes, and is one of a series taken by him and other photographers...
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Photospot. 5 Pygmy Owl

01 August 1984
Comments Main paper Despite being the smallest European owl, little larger than a Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula, the Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum is a true owl in every respect. When excited, it jerks its tail sideways, and after alighting in a tree it usually cocks it u...
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Product Reports

01 August 1984
Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...
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