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01 January 2015 Comments Other t would be unfair to penalise those competitors whose postcards have been delayed by the British postal strike, or those who were unable to send their entries at all because of blocked postboxes. We are, therefore, extending the deadline from 15th Septemb...

Characters and taxonomic position of Basra Reed Warbler

01 January 2015 Comments Main paper n E u r o p e , the Great Reed W a r b l e r Acrocephalus arundinaceus ranges widely a n d breeds south to the M e d i t e r r a n e a n , extending also to northwest Africa. In Asia, it breeds t h r o u g h the USSR east to about85 C E; farther south, it...

Britain and Ireland's first 'soft-plumaged Petrel'

01 October 1999 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Details are presented of the first temperate North Atlantic sighting, in 1974, of a `Soft-plumaged Petrel' (i.e. Madeira Petrel Pterodroma madeira or Cape Verde Petrel P feae)1. The difficulties and problems encountered at the time through lac...

Looking back

01 October 1999 Comments Other FIFTY YEARS AGO On 8th October 1949, a bird shaped like a Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia, but with plumage tones recalling a Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, was watched in a turnip and cabbage patch at Leogh on Fair Isle, Shetland -&nb...

Range extension of Long-tailed Rosefinch into Western Palearctic

01 October 1999 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Records of Long-tailed Rosefinch Uragus sibiricus in the Western Palearctic are generally attributed to escapes from captivity. The species has, however, greatly expanded its Siberian range and now occurs during nomadic movements as far west a...

Monthly marathon

01 October 1999 Comments Other The slim body and long legs of the bird in plate 160 (repeated here as plate 216), with that obvious, long, fairly flat hind claw, long tertials, relatively long, narrow tail and distinctive, darkcentred, pale-edged median coverts all point to a pipit ...

Reviews

01 October 1999 Comments Reviews A test of the figures (and text) for Sora Crake Porzana carolina showed that helpful characters, such as the crown pattern and eye streak, had been wholly or partly omitted; a second close read, however, of Little P. parva and Baillon's Crakes P. pusil...

Letters

01 October 1999 Comments Letters I read with interest the letters from Bill Simpson and Paul Milne (Brit. Birds 92: 428-430), and the earlier one from Anthony McGeehan published alongside my own letter on behalf of the BOU Records Committee (BOURC) (Brit. Birds 92: 212-214). I have no...

Best bird book of the year 1999

01 October 1999 Comments Main paper The monthly journal British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology announce the winner of the title BEST BIRD BOOK OF THE YEAR. All books reviewed in British Birds or the BTO publications BTO News and Bird Study during the previous 12 months are e...

The Carl Zeiss Award 1999

01 October 1999 Comments Main paper Every year, we select, from amongst the prints and transparencies submitted to the British Birds Rarities Committee (either directly or via British Birds), the photograph or set of photographs which has been most instructive in the record-assessment pr...

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Monthly marathon

Characters and taxonomic position of Basra Reed Warbler

Britain and Ireland's first 'soft-plumaged Petrel'

Looking back

Range extension of Long-tailed Rosefinch into Western Palearctic

Monthly marathon

Reviews

Letters

Best bird book of the year 1999

The Carl Zeiss Award 1999

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