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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...

Grey-cheeked and Bicknell's Thrushes: taxonomy, identification and the British and Irish records

01 January 1996 Comments Main paper The BOU Records Committee has recently accepted the taxonomic split of the mainly Nearctic Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus into two species: a restricted Grey-cheeked Thrush comprising the races minimus and aliciae and the monotypic Bicknell's Thr...

Long-toed Stint in Cornwall: the first record for the Western Palearctic

01 January 1996 Comments Open Access ABSTRACT A wader at Marazion Marsh, Cornwall, on 7th and 8th June 1970, originally identified as a Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla, has now been accepted as a Long-toed Stint C. subminuta, the first record of this species in the Western Palearctic. ...

Monthly Marathon

01 January 1996 Comments Other The answers sent in for the first three hurdles can now be revealed. September's dozing wader (Brit. Birds 88: plate 126) was named as White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (36%), Western Sandpiper C. mauri (24%), Little Stint C. minuta (23%), Se...

Rarities Committee News And Announcements

01 January 1996 Comments Editorials For the past 19 years, the British Birds Rarities Committee has, for each rare species recorded during the year, shown (a) the total number of individuals recorded up to the year 1957, (b) the total number of individuals recorded during the period from...

Recent reports

01 January 1996 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 13th November to 17th December 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Immature, perhaps first-winter...

News And Comment

01 January 1996 Comments News and comment After being held hostage for nearly four months by the guerilla group La Cordinadora de la Guerilla 'Simon Bolivar', BB subscriber Timothy Cowley was rescued on 8th December by a special antikidnapping unit of the Colombian police. Welcome back Tim! Ev...

Announcements

01 January 1996 Comments Editorials We are delighted to announce that in 1996 this annual competition will once again be sponsored by Canon (UK) Ltd. Entrants should read the rules carefully (see Brit. Birds 84: 36, or write for a copy). The prizes in 1996 will be as follows: FIRST PRIZE...

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