Editorial

01 January 1980
Comments Editorials At a time when price increases are an all too familiar part of life, it is very pleasing to us and to Macmillan Journals Ltd that, due to the doubling of the number of subscribers in the past two years, the basic subscription price of British Birds can...
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Recent reports

01 January 1980
Comments News and comment This report covers October, and all dates refer to that month. The month's weather was dominated by an anticyclone over the Continent, which gave southeasterly winds across the North Sea tor long periods. The eastward-moving depressions crossing the At...
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News and comment

01 January 1980
Comments News and comment CITES meeting The second meeting of the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was held in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, in March. Delegates representing 39 parties to the Convention attended, and ...
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Requests

01 January 1980
Comments Editorials Colour-marked Ringed Plovers and other waders In the August 1979 issue (Brit. Birds 72: 394), Dr A. Siefke of Vogelwarte Hiddensee requested sightings of colour-ringed Ringed Plovers Charadrius hiaticula. Unknown to each other, Dr Siefke and I ...
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Announcements

01 January 1980
Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year The 1979 winners are B. Bree (aged 16) of Jersey in the senior age-group, Jane Cutler (12) of London in the intermediate age-group, and Paul Chapman (8) of Carlisle in the junior age-group. Fuller details will a...
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