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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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1990

01 November 1991 Comments Main paper Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1990. This is the thirty-third annual report of the Rarities Committee, and for the ninth consecutive year Carl Zeiss-Germany has sponsored the Committee's work. We are most appreciative of this financial assist...

Request for information

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News and Comment

01 March 1971 Comments News and comment Action on environmental pollution ? Naturalists had been waiting with interest for the report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, published on 23rd February. They were not disappointed. The report was forthright in declaring that British t...

Letters

01 March 1971 Comments Letters Future 'British and Irish Lists' At a national conference of regional and local bird report editors in September 1967, arranged by the Report Editors' Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, a resolution was passed deploring the multiplicity of li...

Reviews

01 March 1971 Comments Reviews Wild Wings to the Northlands. By S. Bayliss Smith. Witherby, London, 1970. 208 pages; 24 black-and-white photographs. £1.50. Anyone might be forgiven for thinking, on brief acquaintance, that this is just another birdwatcher's travelogue full of sen...

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