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01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Country, regional and bird observatory recorders in British and Ireland

01 August 1977 Comments Editorials The main aims of this list of bird recorders and editors are to ensure that observers on holiday away from their home areas send records to the right people, to encourage co-operation at the inter-county and intra-county levels, and to provide a source...

Recent Reports

01 August 1977 Comments News and comment [We are pleased to announce that S. C. Madge, recently co-opted on to the Rarities Committee (Brit. Birds 70: 307), has joined K. Allsopp as co-author of this feature. EDS] This report covers May and the first part of June. Unless otherwi...

News and Comment

01 August 1977 Comments News and comment An oily spring The first half of 1977 has been distinguished by the occurrence of five at least equally interesting and instructive oil pollution incidents, which have received vastly different amounts of comment. On 13th February, 80 tons o oil e...

Request

01 August 1977 Comments Editorials Photographers are reminded that colour transparencies and black-and-white prints taken during 1977 will be eligible for the second 'Bird Photograph of the Year' award. The rules will be the same as in 1976 (Brit. Birds 69: 421). Entries should not be s...

Letters

01 August 1977 Comments Letters Melanistic Grey Heron Bryan L. Sage (in litt.) has confirmed that, when making his recent comment (Brit. Birds 70: 76), he had overlooked my record of a melanistic Grey Heron Ardea cinerea at Little Tring Reservoir, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 29th S...

Reviews

01 August 1977 Comments Reviews Birds of the Coast and Sea: Britain and Northern Europe. By Bruce Campbell, with illustrations by Raymond Watson. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. 152 pages; 64 colour plates. £3.75. This is an attractive small book with a well-written a...

Notes

01 August 1977 Comments Notes Kestrel hiding food At dusk on 6th April 1976, at Ynys-hir, Dyfed, J. Parry and I saw a male Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly on to a bank below us about 20 m away. The falcon was carrying prey in one foot, which we later found to be a Wheatear Oe...

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