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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...

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...

Mystery photographs

01 November 1985 Comments Main paper Last month's photograph by Richard T. Mills (plate 241, repeated here as 288) is so sharp and evenly lit, and gives such a vivid impression of how the bird must actually have looked, that one is tempted to jump to a rapid conclusion. Other than se...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1984

01 November 1985 Comments Main paper This is our twenty-seventh annual report. The work of the Rarities Committee has again been sponsored by ZEISS WEST GERMANY. We greatly welcome this financial assistance, which enables us to cope with the expense of processing and publishing the large ...

Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1985 Comments Other 'ON SOME ISLE OF WIGHT BIRDS. RAVEN (Corvus corax).--We Hampshire naturalists were no little grieved last year to hear that the last pair of Freshwater Ravens were first robbed of their five eggs and then shot. The Royal Society for the Protection of B...

Books for Christmas

01 November 1985 Comments Editorials There are scores of natural history books around in the shops. All choices must be personal, but we think that these 40 are the pick of the bunch. They are all suitable to buy as a present (or to hint that you would like bought for you!). They are list...

Recent reports

01 November 1985 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to August unless otherwise stated. The cool unsettled weather experienced this summer continued during August as a series of low-pressure systems tra...

News and comment

01 November 1985 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' . Birds in Gillingham John Holloway has sent us a copy of his 64-page booklet The Birds of Gillingham. The area dealt with is the Borough of Gillingham, Kent, which...

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