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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...

Editorial: Birds and marine pollution

01 August 1972 Comments Editorials Press reactions to the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (see also 'News and comment' on page 359) were, perhaps un>avoidably, mixed. Many laid most stress on such features as the absence of the Russian and other governments, the tons of paper...

Notes

01 August 1972 Comments Notes Little Gull dip-feeding over upland fields On 22nd January 1972, at Barley-in-Pendle, Lancashire, I was fortunate to observe a firstwinter Little Gull Larus minutus following a flock of 24 Black-headed Gulls L. ridibundus over the lower slopes of Pendle H...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1971

01 August 1972 Comments Main paper Plates III and 49-12 This is the fourteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. As was announced in 'Changes in the editorial board' (Brit. Birds, 65: 1-3), P. A. D. Hollom has retired as chairman of the committee and we take this opportunity of expr...

Pellet-ejection by hand-reared Great Crested Grebes

01 August 1972 Comments Main paper There are few records of pellet-ejection by grebes. The habit has been observed in the Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis by the late Major Maxwell Knight (D. E. Hanson in lift.) and in the Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus and Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbu...

Recent reports

01 August 1972 Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was remarkably cold, wet and windy--altogether a month of outstandingly bad weather. A shallow depression which drifted in at the end of April brought a pleasant May Day with a light south...

News and comment

01 August 1972 Comments News and comment Environment Conference The much-vaunted United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm between 5 th and 16th June, and a great deal has already been written elsewhere about this jamboree. The conference began badly, for the U.S....

Letters

01 August 1972 Comments Letters E y e colour of immature American Marsh H a w k Following the publication of my paper on a young American Marsh Hawk Circus cyaneus hudsonius near Cley, Norfolk, in the winter of 1957/58 {Brit. Birds, 64: 537-542), R. A. Richardson wrote to point out that...

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