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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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

01 November 1994 Comments Main paper This, the Rarities Committee's thirty-sixth annual report, details records of rare birds in 1993: a year with many highlights and much to interest the rare-bird enthusiast. The Committee has again been supported by the sponsorship of Carl Zeiss (Oberko...

Reviews

01 January 1945 Comments Reviews The Duck Decoys of Essex. By W. E. Glegg. Essex Naturalist, Vol. xxvii, 1943-4, PP- 191-207 and 211-225, MR. W. E . GLEGG in this scholarly paper brings up to date his extensive knowledge of t h e Essex decoys and includes an interesting account of the ar...

Notes

01 January 1945 Comments Notes reference to Capt. A. C. Fraser's note on this subject (antea, p. 94), I have the following note in my diary for December ioth, 1943 :-- Watched three Bullfinches (one male and two females) They were low down on Snowberry (Symphoricarpus) shrubs and at t...

Obituary: Jim Vincent (1883-1944)

01 January 1945 Comments Obituaries MANY of our readers will have learned with deep regret of the death of Jim Vincent, which took place at Norwich after a short illness on November 4th, As head keeper on Lord Desborough's Whiteslea estate at Hickling, Vincent was known to ornithologists al...

Departure of Swifts

01 January 1945 Comments Main paper THE arrival and departure of migrants are usually recorded by the dates upon which the first and last birds are seen. The arrival date of the first bird of any migrant species is usually fairly close to the arrival of the main bulk of that species : even ...

Some Observations on a remarkably coloured Heron

01 January 1945 Comments Main paper ON March 26th, 1944, I was watching with glasses some Herons (Ardea c. cinerea) in a small heronry near Athenry, Co. Galway, Eire. There were two birds on a newly started (late) nest. The nest was in a beech tree, and at that time the trees were bare so t...

Summary of a Report on the Distribution and Status of the Corn-Crake (Crex Crex)

01 January 1945 Comments Main paper IN the summers from 1933 to 1937 Corn-Crakes were present near Stratford-on-Avon, where they had not been heard since about 1930. In 1935 and 1936 they also re-established themselves in certain areas in Worcestershire. This suggested the possibility that ...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

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Obituary: Jim Vincent (1883-1944)

Departure of Swifts

Some Observations on a remarkably coloured Heron

Summary of a Report on the Distribution and Status of the Corn-Crake (Crex Crex)

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