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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Monthly marathon

01 September 1994 Comments Other The two birds shown in plate 94 were named as White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons (37%), Bean Geese A. fabalis (35%), Pink-footed Geese A. brachyrhynchus (14%), Greylag Geese A. anser (8%) and Lesser White-fronted Geese A. erythropus (6%), wi...
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Twenty-five years ago

01 September 1994 Comments Other "The building of new observatory accommodation on Fair Isle . . . has been accomplished with commendable speed, and the new Bird Observatory was officially opened by the Rt Hon. The Earl of Wemyss and March, President of the National Trust for Scotland...
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