Corrections

01 December 1990
Comments Editorials VOLUME 82 325 EUROPEAN NEWS. American Golden Plover: line 7: 'Lisata' should read 'Lista'. 349 EUROPEAN NEWS. Nightingale: line 6: 'Store Ferder' should read 'Store Faerder'.  ...
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Recent reports

01 December 1990
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th October to 9th November 1990 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records.  Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Scilly, lst-4th November. Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria Welney (N...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1990
Comments Main paper In fact, plate 232 (which was taken by Brian Little) was of a rather famous bird, the Isabelline Wheatear on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, on 2nd3rd October 1988 (Brit. Birds 82: 541, plate 87; 83: 553-554, plate 301). As an aside, it rather looks as if ...
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If the caption fits

01 December 1990
Comments Editorials John H. Smart and Julian Smith have each been sent their book prizes. Just for fun, here is another 'If the caption fits .. .' competition. Readers are invited to compose an apt humorous caption to accompany this portrait of a Belted Kingfisher Ceryle ...
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Diary dates

01 December 1990
Comments Editorials 22nd January BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB Bruce Pearson on his expeditions in Central African Republic, Sudan, Kenya and Zambia. Central London. Non-members should write (enclosing SAE) at least 21 days before to Hon. Secretary, Amberley Moore, 1 Uppin...
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News and comment

01 December 1990
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Birders lost in Peru It is now known that Tim Andrews and Mike Entwistle did leave Lima (contra Brit. Birds 83: 515): they booked into a hotel in Tingo Maria on 3r...
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Short reviews

01 December 1990
Comments Reviews Birds of the High Andes: a manual to the birds of the temperate zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America. By Jon Fjeldså and Niels Krabbe. Illustrated by Jon Fjeldså. (Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen/Apollo Books, Svendborg. 880 pag...
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Reviews

01 December 1990
Comments Reviews Sällsynta Fåglar i Sverige. By Bertil Breife, Erik Hirschfeld, Nils Kjellen and Magnus Ullman. Sveriges Ornitologiska Forening, Stockholm, 1990. 214 pages; 16 colour plates; 87 black-and-white plates; 152 line-drawings; numerous maps and histograms. ...
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Announcements

01 December 1990
Comments Editorials Thank you to our sponsors The Editorial Board would like to give special thanks to the firms and organisations which have helped BB with sponsorship during 1990: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, sponsorship of Bird Photograph of the Year, ...
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