Letters

01 November 1994
Comments Letters Origin of European Pink-backed Pelicans. Following the report of a Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Spain (Brit. Birds 86: 374-375), and one near Sagrado, northeast Italy, in September 1992, as well as other observations farther north in Euro...
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Reviews

01 November 1994
Comments Reviews Finches and Sparrows: an identification guide. By Peter Clement. Illustrated by Alan Harris & John Davis. Christopher Helm Publishers, London, 1993. 500 pages; 73 colour plates; 44 line-drawings; over 280 distribution maps. ISBN 0-7136-8017-2. £29...
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Announcements

01 November 1994
Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report Entries are invited for the fourth annual award (see accounts of the first, second and third awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Br...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 May 1988
Comments Other 'The inclusion of Barrow's Goldeneye as a British species has recently been shown to be entirely unwarranted and this is mentioned by Mr. Millais in a footnote added while his work was "in the press." We must take exception, too, to the inclusion of Ba...
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Identification of large terns

01 May 1988
Comments Main paper This concluding part consists solely of photographs of the seven (or eight) species concerned, and is intended to be used in conjunction with the text, maps and paintings which appeared in Part 1 (Brit. Birds 80: 257-276).107. Adult winter Caspian Tern...
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Readership survey

01 May 1988
Comments Main paper The pull-out questionnaire which was included in the October 1987 issue was aimed mainly at providing us with information so that we can (1) adjust the balance of the contents of the journal to suit the wishes of our readers, and (2) provide our advert...
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Bird Photograph of the Year

01 May 1988
Comments Main paper At the risk of boring our regular readers, we must say, yet again, that the photographic standard of this competition is amazingly high. For the judges, this is very much one of the highlights of the year, full of pleasure and enjoyment. It is extremel...
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Requests

01 May 1988
Comments Editorials Atlas of Breeding Birds of the Algarve This year is the first of this five-year project. Offers of help will be much appreciated. Further information and record cards can be obtained from the western Algarve organiser, Mrs Glenis Vowles, Vale Bom, Odel...
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