Requests

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials For forthcoming papers, colour transparencies or colour prints of the following species are needed: Saker Falco cherrug, Lanner F. biarmicus, Gyr F. rusticolus and Barbary Falcons F. pelegrinoides. Greater Sand Charadrius leschenaultii, Lesser Sand C. ...
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Announcements

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials The key to the first part of the solution to the puzzle on page ix in the December 1996 issue (pictures repeated here) was the phrase 'brainpower initially', as the word BRAINPOWER contains the initial letters, in order, of each species illustrated: Bl...
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Announcements

01 October 1991 Comments Editorials Addition to the British and Irish List. In its forthcoming fifteenth report (Ibis in press), the BOU Records Committee will publish its recognition--following the recommendations by Bourne et al and Yesou a al. (Brit. Birds 81: 306-319; 83: 299-319)--o...
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Fieldwork action

01 October 1991 Comments Editorials BTO news. Did you know that 20% of wintering Redshanks Tringa totanus at a site on the East Lothian coast are eaten by raptors each year? Or that some birds hunt by smell? That owls can breed in baskets, and Merlins Falco columbariu...
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