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Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Recent reports

01 July 1996 Comments News and comment Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Near Bembridge (Isle of Wight), 18th May. Purple Heron Ardea purpurea Tacumshin (Co. Wexford), from mid May to 9th June. Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus Isles of Scilly, mainly St Mary's and Tresco, 16th May to 5th June; Spu...

Monthly marathon

01 July 1996 Comments Other That rock-perching bird (plate 118) was named as Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta (68%), Rock Pipit A. petrosus (29%) and also Buff-bellied Pipit A. rubescens, Fieldfare Turdus pilaris, Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis and Cinereous Bunting Emberiz...

News and comment

01 July 1996 Comments News and comment We have commented in the past (Brit. Birds 88: 488) upon the delays associated with the production of a new British Red Data List for birds. Now we have Birds of Conservation Concern in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, which saw the...

Announcements

01 July 1996 Comments Editorials 'Rare Birds Day by Day': EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL OFFER Using the Rarities Committee database, a new T & A D Poyser book. Rare Birds Day by Day by Steve Dudley, Pete Fraser, Tim Benton & John Ryan, sets records out in calendar fashion, rather than spe...

Reviews

01 July 1996 Comments Reviews The Complete Garden Bird Book: how to identify and attract birds to your garden. By Mark Golley, Stephen Moss & David Daly, New Holland, London, 1996. 176 pages; 500 illustrations, ISBN 1-85368-581-X. Paperback £9.99. The only thing wrong with thi...

Mystery photographs

01 July 1996 Comments Main paper This is obviously a diurnal raptor, with the give-away short neck, long tail and broad wings which will cause other birds to raise the alarm and bring it to our attention. The wings are too broad and rounded at the tips for it to be a falcon and i...

Looking Back

01 July 1996 Comments Other One hundred and fifty years ago: 'On the occurrence of the Australian Spine-tailed Swallow [Whitethroated Needletail Swift Hirundapus caudacutus] in England. It was shot about 9 p.m. on the 8th of this month [July 1846] by a farmer's son, named Peter C...

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