Looking back

01 January 1999 Comments Other `I have been fortunate in being able to arrange for the addition of Mr. J. D. Wood, B.A., M.B.O.U., to the British Birds staff. Mr. Wood is an assistant master at Leighton Park School, Reading... and... will take over most of the routine editorial work...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 1999 Comments Other In response to suggestions from several subscribers, we plan in future to provide a brief summary of the identification features visible in each `Monthly marathon' photograph (Brit. Birds 91: plate 156). These will normally be written by one of SUNBIRD...
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Fifty years ago

01 June 1980 Comments Other 'ROOKS COLLECTING RUBBER OBJECTS. The Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) of Wanstead Park have a strange custom which may not have been brought before the notice of readers of British Birds. For more than twenty years they have been in the habit of collectin...
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