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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...

Migrant Ring Ouzels at a stopover site on the South Downs

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper Ring Ouzels Turdus torquatus from both the British and the Scandinavian populations regularly occur on passage in lowland England, where the species does not breed. Although Durman (1976) analysed the timing of this passage through Britain using bird-o...

Monthly marathon

01 June 1993 Comments Other STAGE 1 (plate 18): Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (71%), Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (10%), Greater Yellowlegs T. melanoleuca (4%) and Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (3%), with 2 % or less each for 12 other species. STAGE 2 (plate 32): Leach's Sto...

Bird Photograph of the Year

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper On 3rd February, the four judges faced a total of 120 colour transparencies submitted by 44 top bird-photographers, knowing that by the end of the day there had to be one winner. A daunting task, but, after six enthralling hours of study, discussion an...

Mystery photographs

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper No prizes for identifying last month's photograph (plate 45, repeated here) as an immature gull. With no other species for comparison, its size is difficult to judge, so we must use plumage and structural characters to narrow the field. The combination...

From the Rarities Committee's files

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper A report of a Black Stork. On previous occasions, this series has featured high-quality rare-bird-rccord submissions. The reader ought not to form the impression that all of the records received by the BBRC are up to that Standard. The description that...

Twenty-five years ago...

01 June 1993 Comments Other On 13th June 1968, 'The first recorded British nest of the Bluethroat Luscinia svecica was found in the Moray Basin faunal area of Scotland' by Dr J. J. D. Greenwood, now Director of the BTO. (Brit. Birds 61: 524). Earlier, three LesserGrey Shrike...

Announcements

01 June 1993 Comments Editorials Books in British BirdShop The following books have been added this month: Clements & Principe Birds of the World--a check list: English Name Index and Supplement No. 1 (Ibis). Hosking, Hosking & Flegg Eric Hosking's Classic Birds: 60 years of b...

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