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Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Recent reports

01 March 1992 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 17th January to 14th February 1992 Thes e are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Egret Egretta garzetla At least 40 in Britain (about 25 in Cornwall and Devon and one in Scotland), and at least t...

News and comment

01 March 1992 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Emergency Zones in Peru. In the light of recent killings of British birdwatchers in Peru (Brit. Birds 83: 515, 567; 84: 239), it should be noted that there ar...

Notes

01 March 1992 Comments Notes Roosting Hen Harrier killed by fox. On the morning of 14th December 1985, while collecting pellets at a communal roost site of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus on Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, I discovered a quantity of grey and white harrier f...

Announcements

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Books in British BirdShop. The following books have been added to the list this month: Simms: British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails. Smith: Alfred Russel Wallace.Trodd & Kramer: The Birds of Bedfordshire. For all your book orders, please use the ...

Requests

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Scarce migrant records To ensure that accurate and comprehensive accounts of scarce migrants and other rarities can be prepared, detailed records of the following species are requested: inland Black-throated Gavia arctica and Great Northe...

ICBP news

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Birding abroad. Last summer, Mark Pearman, a British birder now living in Argentina, rediscovered one of t h e world's least-known birds, Kaempfer's Tody-tyrant Hemitriccus kaempferi, in humid lowland forest in southern Brazil. This species was de...

If the caption fits

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Of the many suggested captions to Mike Weston's photograph of two Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibutidus (Brit. Birds 84: plate 15, repeated here), we enjoyed the following: 'Decent, respectable gulls keep their sexual affairs to the proper...

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