Monthly marathon

01 January 2015 Comments Other t would be unfair to penalise those competitors whose postcards have been delayed by the British postal strike, or those who were unable to send their entries at all because of blocked postboxes. We are, therefore, extending the deadline from 15th Septemb...
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Recent reports

01 October 1992 Comments News and comment This sumnary covers the period 15th August to 3rd September 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 21st August. Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva Pagha...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1992 Comments Other It was a Greater Yellowlegs, photographed in Florida, USA, in April by Gordon Langsbury. Of the leading contestants, none fell at this hurdle. The eventual winner of this competition, which is turning into a real endurance test, will be able to choose ...
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News and comment

01 October 1992 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'.  BOC 100. Congratulations! The British Ornithologists' Club was founded on 5th October 1892. Over the past 100 years, the club has provided its members w...
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Reviews

01 October 1992 Comments Reviews The Birds of Oxfordshire. Edited by J. W. Brucker, A. G. Gosler & A. R. Heryet. The Nature Conservation Bureau, Newbury, 1992. 288 pages; 8 colour plates; 150 line-drawings; 92 maps; 57 histograms. £27.95.The species accounts occupy one-third of t...
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ICBP news

01 October 1992 Comments Editorials Puna Grebe new.s Bad news on the Puna Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii, endemic to Lake Junin in Peru and one of the world's most threatened birds. Once abundant, the population was estimated to have dropped to 200-300 individuals in 1987, but terrorist act...
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Seventy-five years age

01 October 1992 Comments Other 'A SPOTTED REDSHANK IN NORFOLK. It may be of interest to record that on September 7th, 1917, I saw a Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) standing beside a dirty pond on the main road between Syderstone and Docking, practically in the village of Syders...
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Announcements

01 October 1992 Comments Editorials Books in British BirdShop The following books have been added to the list this month: Cramp: Birds of the Western Palearctic vol. 6 Jonsson: The Birds of Europe For all your book orders, please use the British BirdShop order form on pages xi &...
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Letters

01 October 1992 Comments Letters Identifying Spanish egrets It is not without misgivings that one challenges so accomplished and widely acknowledged an authority as Rob Hume, but we must point out an error in his paper on the identification of the Little Egret Egretta garzetta (Brit. ...
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