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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...

Reviews

01 January 1983 Comments Reviews Hilbre; the Cheshire Island: its history and natural history. Edited by J. D, Craggs. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1982. 306 pages; 31 black-and-white plates; many line-drawings. £20.00. Hilbre, Middle Eye and Little Eye are three tiny ...

Recent reports

01 January 1983 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated lecords All dates refer to October unless stated otherwise. The month was dominated by unsettled cyclonic weather with frequent fronts, but with generally mild conditions. During the first fortnigh...

News and Comment

01 January 1983 Comments News and comment Regular subscribers will notice a change in authorship of this feature. Bob Spencer will soon be retiring from his post as Director of Services in the BTO and moving to Cumbria, and has decided to withdraw from co-authorship of 'News and comment' ...

Requests

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