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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...

Letter

01 September 1982 Comments Letters Mortality of Sparrowhawks and Kestrels The findings of Newton et al. (Brit. Birds 75: 195-204) are similar in most respects to ours (Keymer et al. 1981). We wish to comment, however, on some important differences, especially regarding...

Notes

01 September 1982 Comments Notes Male Montagu's Harrier with broad white rump patch On 19th June 1978, south of the River Guadalquivir near Lebrija, Spain, D.J. Fisher, S.J. M. Gantlett and I saw a male Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus which was typical in every way of an adu...

Mystery photographs

01 September 1982 Comments Main paper With really good views there is no problem in separating Bridled Sterna anaethetus and Sooty Terns S. fuscata. Only one other species comes into the reckoning: in view of the recent addition of Aleutian Tern S. aleutica to the western Palearctic list, ...

Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1982 Comments Other 'DARTFORD WARBLER IN CORNWALL.--Dr. Clark says that it was unrecorded after the hard winter of 1886-7 until May, 1889, when one was seen at Hayle. In April, 1904, a nest was found near Penryn, and in 1905 one at Linkinhorne, and another at St. Buryan.'...

Best recent black-and-whitebird-photographs

01 September 1982 Comments Main paper When this feature commenced in 1960, under the title 'Examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers', the intention was to place on record in one journal the finest bird-photographs produced, to encourage competition, to give newcomers...

Polygamy by Willow Warblers

01 September 1982 Comments Main paper The Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus is generally considered to be single brooded, though a small proportion of pairs may raise a second brood (Campbell & Ferguson-Lees 1972; Witherby et al. 1938-41). Few if any of these records of 'second bro...

Field characters of Isabelline and Brown Shrikes

01 September 1982 Comments Main paper The re-establishment of Isabelline Shrike Lanius Brown T Shrike L. cristatus and the Red-backed Shrike L. isabellinus,as separate collurio species (Voous 1977 & 1979; BOU Records Committee 1980) has rekindled interest in their field identification....

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