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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...

Announcements

01 December 1977 Comments Editorials Reduced subscription rates By using special forms obtainable through their local organisations, members of the following clubs and societies can now or will soon be able to subscribe to British Birds for £6.00 instead of the standard £8.00 pe...

Letters

01 December 1977 Comments Letters Black-headed Gulls foot-paddling on grassland Joh. J. Frieswijk's letter (Brit. Birds 70: 266), recording frequent observations of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus foot-paddling on grassland in the Netherlands, contrasted with my note drawin...

Reviews

01 December 1977 Comments Reviews Minsmere. Portrait of a Bird Reserve. By Herbert Axell. Hutchinson, London, 1977. 256 pages; 45 colour and 71 black-and-white photographs; many line-drawings and maps. £7.50 The Minsmere reserve of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds...

Notes

01 December 1977 Comments Notes Great Crested Grebes breeding on rivers Bruce Campbell and James Ferguson-Lees (1971, A Field Guide to Birds' Nests) stated that Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus occasionally breed on stretches of slow-flowing rivers. In the 1970s, in Bu...

Obituaries: David Morrison Reid-Henry (1919-1977) , Richard Allan Richardson (1922-1977)

01 December 1977 Comments Obituaries When David Reid-Henry died on 26th September in Salisbury, Rhodesia, the world lost, to my mind, its fmest modern bird artist. He was only 58 and at the peak of his profession; scores of half-finished paintings will now never be completed by this man o...

Palearctic bird sound recordings

01 December 1977 Comments Main paper This latest instalment of the discography again draws attention to recordings of particular value t o the field ornithologist and to interesting trends in the selection or presentation of bird sounds on disc, cassette or tape Throughout t...

Wader plumages in autumn and winter

01 December 1977 Comments Main paper Bird-photography away from the nest has almost inevitably tended to concentrate on wading birds, a challenging subject with that most photogenic combination of contrasting shapes and plumages, allied to the water and mud habitat. Few photographers have...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

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Obituaries: David Morrison Reid-Henry (1919-1977) , Richard Allan Richardson (1922-1977)

Palearctic bird sound recordings

Wader plumages in autumn and winter

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