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Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Reviews

01 November 1981 Comments Reviews 'Birdwatching in the Seventies. By Ian Wallace. Macmillan, London, 1981. 183 pages; 38 line-drawings. £7.95. The most ornithoiogically explored decade in British and Irish history', states Ian Wallace in this new book. Surely he is right...

Recent reports

01 November 1981 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report refers to August unless otherwise stated. High-pressure systems dominated the weather throughout the month and mainly dry, settled conditions prevailed. During the first week, s...

News and comment

01 November 1981 Comments News and comment Anti-shooting Since 1976, when it commissioned an independent study into shooting and angling under Lord Medway (now the Earl ofCranbrook), the RSPCA has been reviewing its position on these matters. Now, a year after receiving Cranbrook's report, it h...

Announcements

01 November 1981 Comments Editorials Peterson Sound Guide special offer Jeffery Boswall has provided us with the information that the 15 discs give 1,088 recordings of 585 species, with a running time of 12 hours; the 16 cassettes give 1,250 recordings of 612 species, with a runni...

Mystery photographs: Common Swift

01 November 1981 Comments Main paper One out of large numbers of Swifts Apus apus flying over a reservoir is feeding particularly close and, in the bright light, shows more plumage detail than the others. Dark blackish brown belly and underwingcoverts contrast with lighter flight fea...

Fifty years ago

01 November 1981 Comments Other 'Most of the estimates about the Hobby's status are vague and uncertain. During the last twenty years it has deserted several haunts, in others it is decreasing rapidly. The desertion of old strongholds affords a sad but interesting problem. The reason...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1980

01 November 1981 Comments Main paper This is the twenty-third report of the Rarities Committee. Details of Committee membership and other matters relating to its work during the year have already been published {Brit. Birds 74: 314). So far (and excluding Cory's Shearwaters), 593 records ...

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