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Mystery Photographs

01 July 1984 Comments Editorials What we have in plate 89 (and repeated here) is a robust lark, standing on a rock, with the breeze creating a 'black hole' in its breast and perhaps exaggerating its crest. From the relative size of its bill and its legs, it is not a small bird, and th...

Product Reports

01 July 1984 Comments Editorials Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...

Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard Richardson Award'

01 July 1984 Comments Main paper Having presented the prizes for several years, Keith Shackleton joined the permanent judges and soon discovered what a lengthy and difficult exercise it is to sort out winners from 55 artists submitting 220 drawings. The winners were as follows:Two art...

Identification of Stints and Peeps

01 July 1984 Comments Main paper The precision and supreme artistry of Lars Jonsson's stint paintings (plates 113 to 120) fully match the complexities of the subject. They bear the closest inspection, and provide a further major advance in stint identification, building especially on ...

Rarities Committee News and Announcements

01 July 1984 Comments Editorials Most of the Committee's work is done by postal circulation of records, but there are two meetings each year. One (usually in March) is mainly to discuss procedural and policy matters. The second, usually in July, is mainly to discuss identification top...

Photospot. 4. Lesser Golden Plover

01 July 1984 Comments Main paper Both photographs show how long-legged, long-winged and long-billed Lesser Golden Plovers Pluvialis dominica are compared with our Golden Plover P. apricaria. The Nearctic photograph (plate 130) shows the typical juvenile which we have come to expect in...

Request

01 July 1984 Comments Editorials Transparencies request Anyone with high-quality colour transparencies of a 1983 rarity is asked to loan the originals to us for possible use (perhaps in colour) in the next rarities report. To be considered, transparencies must arrive with Dr J. T. R.&...

Announcements

01 July 1984 Comments Editorials 'The Atlas of Australian Birds' This new 750-page book includes two-colour maps for every one of Australia's 648 species, summarising over 2½ million records, the work of over 3,000 birdwatchers. The layout recalls our own Atlas, with line-d...

Recent Prosecutions

01 July 1984 Comments Editorials The cases reported here were taken to court by the RSPB or the police or, in Scotland, the Procurator Fiscal, as a result of enquiries initiated or undertaken by the RSPB. They are only examples of the many cases in which the RSPB has been involved rec...

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