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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...

Corrections

01 December 1982 Comments Editorials Pages 19 BEHAVIOUR OF BLACK-WINGED STILTS Line 3 of the first paragraph on Intraspecific behaviour: 'Only a metre' should read 'Only a mate'. 26 EUROPEAN NEWS Bonelli's Eagle 'Hieraaetus pennatus' should read 'Hieraaetus fasciatus'.&nbs...

Reviews

01 December 1982 Comments Reviews The Garden Bird Book. Edited by David Glue. Macmillan, London, in association with the British Trust for Ornithology. 1982. 208 pages; 8 colour plates, numerous black-and-white photographs, and two-colour line drawings. £7.95. The introduction...

Short reviews

01 December 1982 Comments Reviews Migration Paths through Time and Space. By R. Robin Baker. (Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. Paperback, £5.45) Continuing, on a generally popular level, the author's ideas propounded in The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration (1978: reviewed Br...

Recent reports

01 December 1982 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates refer to September, unless otherwise stated. For the first eight days of the month, high pressure to the south maintained a westerly flow across most of the country. A sma...

News and comment

01 December 1982 Comments News and comment The opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' New legislation After long delays, the remaining parts of Part 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1982--those affecting bird protection--came into force on 2...

Diary dates

01 December 1982 Comments Editorials This list covers events taking place during January to December 1983. We welcome submission of details for possible inclusion in the next list, coveringjuly 1983 to June 1984. 7th-9th January BTO RINGING AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. Ha...

Request

01 December 1982 Comments Editorials Sterling rather than dollar payments by US subscribers Payment is made in pounds sterling by subscribers from everywhere in the world except the USA. Most American subscribers pay in US dollars, but some do pay in ££ and we greatly welcome th...

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