ICBP news

01 November 1991
Comments Editorials In response to a request from the International Council for Bird Preservation, we shall be publishing a regular short feature on international bird conservation topics, in addition to those which we have always included in 'News and comment'. EDS. ...
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Fieldwork action

01 November 1991
Comments Editorials Regional Development Officers. During 1992-93, the BTO will be setting up a new regional network. This will consist of BTO members keen to promote the BTO at the local level in a systematic way. The new volunteers will be called Regional Development Of...
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Letter

01 November 1991
Comments Letters Identification of Meadow and Red-throated Pipits. In a 'Mystery photographs' text {Brit. Birds 79: 34-40), the late P.J. Grant discussed the identification of Meadow Anthus pratensis and Red-throated Pipits A. cervinus, prompted by a series of photogra...
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Notes

01 November 1991
Comments Notes Herons alighting on sea. On 31st August 1985, from the Zuluf offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf, N. J. S. Drummond and I observed a migrating flight of seven Purple Herons Ardea purpurea flying very low over the sea. One of them suddenly a...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1991
Comments Other ' Mr W. J. E. Dawson states that he discovered a pair of Lanius collurio near Athlone about the end of April, 1916. Mr Dawson has kindly sent us further details of the birds he saw and we feel sure from what he says that he was mistaken in his identifi...
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Reviews

01 February 1983
Comments Reviews Bird Migration in Africa: movements between six continents. By Kai Curry-Lindahl. Academic Press, 1981. 2 vols, lxxxix + 695 pages; many text maps; 32 monochrome plates. Vol. 1, £41.40; vol. 2, £20.60. A price which is unusually high, coupled with th...
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Recent reports

01 February 1983
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates refer to November unless stated otherwise. During the first week, high pressure nearby on the Continent blocked the passage of Atlantic depressions, with resultant warm southerly ...
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News and comment

01 February 1983
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Cape Clear news. It is good news for Irish ornithology that Tim Collins, who has had a very successful spell as Warden at Cape Clear Bird Observatory in autumn 198...
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Announcements

01 February 1983
Comments Editorials Irish Rare Breeding Birds Panel At a meeting held in Dublin on 27th November 1982, an Irish Rare Breeding Birds Panel was formed, to collect all records of rare breeding birds in the Republic of Ireland. Those attending this meeting were Dr David Cabot...
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