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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Recent Reports

01 August 1977
Comments News and comment [We are pleased to announce that S. C. Madge, recently co-opted on to the Rarities Committee (Brit. Birds 70: 307), has joined K. Allsopp as co-author of this feature. EDS]  This report covers May and the first part of June. Unless otherwi...
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News and Comment

01 August 1977
Comments News and comment An oily spring The first half of 1977 has been distinguished by the occurrence of five at least equally interesting and instructive oil pollution incidents, which have received vastly different amounts of comment. On 13th February, 80 tons o oil e...
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Request

01 August 1977
Comments Editorials Photographers are reminded that colour transparencies and black-and-white prints taken during 1977 will be eligible for the second 'Bird Photograph of the Year' award. The rules will be the same as in 1976 (Brit. Birds 69: 421). Entries should not be s...
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Letters

01 August 1977
Comments Letters Melanistic Grey Heron Bryan L. Sage (in litt.) has confirmed that, when making his recent comment (Brit. Birds 70: 76), he had overlooked my record of a melanistic Grey Heron Ardea cinerea at Little Tring Reservoir, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 29th S...
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Reviews

01 August 1977
Comments Reviews Birds of the Coast and Sea: Britain and Northern Europe. By Bruce Campbell, with illustrations by Raymond Watson. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. 152 pages; 64 colour plates. £3.75. This is an attractive small book with a well-written a...
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