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...
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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...
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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...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 November 1984 Comments Other 'If I read him correctly, Mr. F. Stubbs (antea, p. 155) seems to think that song is nothing more than the ebullition of superfluous energy. That is to say that it plays as much or as little part in the life of a bird as steam escaping into the air from...
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Reviews

01 November 1984 Comments Reviews The Birds of the Soviet Union: a sound guide [Russian]. By Boris N. Veprintsev. Three 30cm 33.3 rpm long-playing records, nos. C90-18023/ 4, 5/6 & 7/8. 1982. Melodiya, All-Union Studio for Recorded Sound, 32-34 Smolensk Square, Moscow 200, USSR. Ob...
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Recent Reports

01 November 1984 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to August unless otherwise stated. The prolonged settled weather this summer continued throughout August as high-pressure areas remained nearby. The few weath...
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News and comment

01 November 1984 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Pert Pools Project: 10th birthday For the last ten autumns, a shallow pool adjacent to the coast road at Pett Level, East Sussex, has been partly drained to provid...
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Requests

01 November 1984 Comments Editorials Identification of stints and peeps. In 12 or 18 months' time, we intend to publish an update of identification criteria, based on the thorough field-testing which will undoubtedly be taking place following the publication in July of the paper...
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Announcements

01 November 1984 Comments Editorials New edition of 'The "British Birds" List of Birds of the Western Palearctic'. A new edition of our checklist is currently in production, not this time as a small booklet, but as a BB-sized booklet with 15 columns for each species. Thus, this checklist ...
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