Announcements

01 March 1991
Comments Editorials Rarities Committee: new members As previously announced (Brit. Birds 83: 413-414), three vacancies will arise on the Rarities Committee* from 1st April 1991. In addition to the Committee's three nominations, two further independent nominations were receiv...
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Mystery photographs

01 March 1991
Comments Main paper The weak bill, small head, short neck, plump body, long tail and (presumably) short legs of last month's mystery bird (plate 64, repeated here) instantly identify it as a pigeon or dove. Most readers will have progressed farther immediately, by noticin...
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Letter

01 March 1991
Comments Letters The occurrence of 'Russian' Bean Geese in Britain. In reply to Andreas Noeske (Brit. Birds 83: 556-560), we should like to comment as follows: 1. We agree that the Bean Goose Anser fabalis shows clinal variation and that subspecific identification is d...
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Notes

01 March 1991
Comments Notes Unusual concealment behaviour by Coot. On 27th June 1986, while walking along the bank of the Union Canal close to Winchburgh, Lothian, I watched a single adult Coot Fulica atra disappear underwater about 1 m from the water's edge and about 20 paces ah...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1991
Comments Other With the same issue containing a 'Mystery photographs' text and photographs relating to Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus (Brit. Birds 83: 561-564, plates 302 & 303), was plate 306 a simple problem, or a trap? Clearly, quite a number of entra...
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Recent Reports

01 March 1991
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 18th January to 14th February 1991 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii First-winter, Echnaloch Bay, Burray Isle (Orkney), 9th February. American Bittern Bo...
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News and Comment

01 March 1991
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. ICBP spells it out. When 380 conservation experts from 56 countries met at the 20th World Conference of the International Council for Bird Preservation (in Hamilto...
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Short reviews

01 March 1991
Comments Reviews Bird Flight: an illustrated study of birds' aerial mastery. By Robert Burton. (Facts on File Ltd, Oxford, 1990. 160 pages. £14.95) This is a very attractive and accurate presentation of the current propagated theories. This subject, of both po...
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