Announcements

01 March 1991
Comments Editorials Rarities Committee: new members As previously announced (Brit. Birds 83: 413-414), three vacancies will arise on the Rarities Committee* from 1st April 1991. In addition to the Committee's three nominations, two further independent nominations were receiv...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1991
Comments Other With the same issue containing a 'Mystery photographs' text and photographs relating to Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus (Brit. Birds 83: 561-564, plates 302 & 303), was plate 306 a simple problem, or a trap? Clearly, quite a number of entra...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 March 1991
Comments Other 'ARCTIC SKUA SOARING IN PURSUIT OF TERNS. EARLY in September, 1915, I watched an Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) attacking some Common Terns in Blakeney Harbour, in a distinctly unusual manner. The Terns, gradually mounting to a great height in ...
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