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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...

Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard RichardsonAward'

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper For two of the judges, it was the twelfth meeting to pick the 'Bird Illustrator of die Year' and the occasion was still just as absorbing as the first. We have watched the standard of work rising over the years, although it is hardly surpris...

Obituary: Sir Hugh Elliott, Bt, OBE (1913-1989)

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper Sir Hugh Elliott, Bt, OBE (1913-1989). Once upon a time, back in the 1950s when I was still a discontented medical student frequenting the Bird Room at the British Museum (Natural History), I found a representative collection of birds of the inade...

Identification of Hume's Short-toed Lark

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper In February 1986, a Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris was seen and subsequently caught at Eilat, Israel: the first record for the Western Palearctic. Hume's Short-toed Lark breeds from eastern Iran through Afghanistan, northern Pakis...

Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1990 Comments Other 'CUCKOO' S METHOD OF DEPOSITING EGG. On May 19th, 1915,I visited an old friend of mine in Norfolk. He leads a very secluded life but is a keen observer of natural history and a man whose word one can trust implicitly. There are some ...

Monthly marathon

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper It was almost impossible to judge the size of that flying wader (plate 104), but very few people fell into the trap of overestimating its bulk. Entrants named it as: Sanderling Calidris alba (93%) Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola (5%). It was, indeed, ...

News and comment

01 July 1990 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Welsh Conference 1990 The third annual conference of the Welsh Ornithological Society was held in Aberystwyth on 7th April and attracted nearly a hundred participa...

Requests

01 July 1990 Comments Editorials Photographs of large falcons For a forthcoming identification paper in British Birds on the large falcons of the Western Palearctic, including Lanner Falco biarmicus, Saker F. cherrug, Gyrfalcon F. rusticolus and Peregrine F, peregrinus, photographs (i...

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