Corrections

01 December 1995
Comments Editorials 'Iceland Gulls from the "Braer" disaster, Shetland 1993.' Page 21, in footnote, definition of bursa should read 'Pouch on wall of cloaca found only in very young birds'; page 22, 'Discussion', line 15: 'one' should read 'none'. 136-140 'Kentish Plovers...
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Acknowledgments

01 December 1995
Comments Editorials As well as the many people who help BB in a whole variety of ways, many of whose names are listed on the inside front cover each month, we should like to thank the following, who waived all or part of their photographic or artistic fees in favour of BB...
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Announcements

01 December 1995
Comments Editorials In 11 months of the year, British Birds is mailed on the last Thursday of the month preceding the date of the issue (e.g. the November 1995 issue was despatched on 26th October). The January issue, however, is always despatched in the middle of January...
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Diary dates

01 December 1995
Comments Editorials 25th July to 9th August SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE ARTISTS ' ANNUAL EXHIBITION (including display of winning entries in 'Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard Richardson Award' competitions). The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London swi. Open 10 a.m...
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Announcements

01 November 1988
Comments Editorials Waders If you are interested in the ageing, sexing and identification of waders, a new book, North Atlantic Shorebirds, due to be published in the new year, will include state-of-the-art text together with stunning colour photographs of every relevant plu...
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Announcements

01 October 1988
Comments Editorials 'Not BB III' The third number of this tasteless and scurrilous publication tries to emulate its great parent journal, but fails pitifully, as did the two earlier issues. It is included in British BirdShop (pages xix & xx) to make it look as if we can take...
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Announcements

01 September 1988
Comments Editorials The Arcachon tern We understand that the French Rarities Committee is still assessing the record of the yellow-billed tern Sterna at Arcachon, France, depicted recently in British Birds (81: 217, plate 118). Our captioning of this individual as Lesser Cre...
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Announcements

01 March 1988
Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year Once again, British Birds was the sponsor of this annual competition, which is run by the Young Ornithologists' Club, the junior section of the RSPB. The general standard of entries in the intermediate age-group and, espec...
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Announcements

01 February 1988
Comments Editorials Do you get your 'BB' late? If so, it is not our fault. With the exception every year of the January issue, copies of BB are despatched on the last Thursday of the month preceding the cover date (e.g. this February issue will have been despatched on 28th J...
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