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Identification pitfalls and assessment problems. 16. European Bee-eater Merops apiaster

01 May 1995 Comments Main paper This series, which started in January 1983 (Brit. Birds 76: 26-28), is not intended to cover ail facets of the identification of the species concerned, but only the major sources of error likely to mislead the observer in the field or the person attemp...

The best annual bird report awards

01 May 1995 Comments Main paper It is with keen anticipation that the four judges assemble to assess the year's batch of annual reports, for the standard these days is so high that comments consist almost entirely of drawing attention to useful summaries, interesting records, pleasin...

Letters

01 March 1995 Comments Letters I was fascinated to read the reference, in the item on 'Identification by taste', to my great-grandfather, John Cordeaux (Brit. Birds 87: 447). I looked up his last publication, a revised list of British Birds belonging to the Humber District (1899), a...

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01 June 1994 Comments Reviews Birds of Skokholm. By Michael Betts. Bioline, for the Dyfed Wildlife Trust, Cardiff, 1992. 74 pages; 19 line-drawings; 76 histograms and graphs. ISBN 0-9520432-0-3. Paperback £4.50. This book gives a concise, readable account of data gathered sin...

Letters

01 November 1993 Comments Letters Red-crested Pochard hybrids. The occurrence of hybrids involving Red-crested Pochards Netta rufina may not be so unusual as is suggested by A. H. J. Harrop's note (Brit. Birds 86: 130). A. P. Gray (1958) recorded hybrids with 11 species of the genus An...

From the Rarities Committee's files: Records not accepted

01 November 1993 Comments Main paper Records not accepted At the end of each annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain' there is a list of records not accepted. Observers, especially those who have submitted records which have appeared under this heading, occasionally express an inter...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1992

01 October 1993 Comments Main paper This is the Rarities Committee's thirty-fifth annual report, and the Committee wishes to express its sincere appreciation of the eleventh consecutive year of sponsorship of its work by Carl Zfiss (Oberkochen) Ltd. Rarities Committee membership is liste...

Reviews

01 March 1993 Comments Reviews H a n d b o o k o f the Birds o f Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. vol. VI: warblers. By S. Cramp et at. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. 728 pages; 31 colour plates; numerous line-drawings. ISBN...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1991

01 October 1992 Comments Main paper This is the thirty-fourth annual report of the Rarities Committee, and with its publication, Carl Zeiss--Germany has reached the tenth anniversary of sponsorship of the Committee's work. To celebrate a decade of this much appreciated co-operation, an a...

Raptor migration at Eilat

01 April 1992 Comments Main paper Raptor migration at Eilat. Hadoram Shirihai and David A. Christie. Recent work has shown that Eilat in southern Israel is one of the best places in the world for observing migrating Palearctic raptors. This paper describes the huge raptor...

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Identification pitfalls and assessment problems. 16. European Bee-eater Merops apiaster

The best annual bird report awards

Letters

Reviews

Letters

From the Rarities Committee's files: Records not accepted

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1992

Reviews

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1991

Raptor migration at Eilat

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