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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...

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01 November 1988 Comments Editorials Waders If you are interested in the ageing, sexing and identification of waders, a new book, North Atlantic Shorebirds, due to be published in the new year, will include state-of-the-art text together with stunning colour photographs of every relevant plu...

Mystery photographs

01 November 1988 Comments Main paper -j ' J ^ There are no other small birds around with which to compare X«3 / our mystery p a s s e r i n e (plates 242, 308 & 309), b u t it is obviously very small in comparison to the grass and clods of earth. From acombination of the size, relatively sm...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1987

01 November 1988 Comments Main paper thirtieth annual report Once This is the work of the Committee of the Rarities Committee. muchagain, the has been supported by the appreciated sponsorship of ZEISS West Germany. This most welcome financial assistance enables us to deal more effectively wi...

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01 October 1988 Comments Editorials 'Not BB III' The third number of this tasteless and scurrilous publication tries to emulate its great parent journal, but fails pitifully, as did the two earlier issues. It is included in British BirdShop (pages xix & xx) to make it look as if we can take...

Best recent black and-white bird-photographs

01 October 1988 Comments Main paper e normally view the black-and-white pictures submitted for this feature immediately after judging the 'Bird Photograph of the Year' competition. With our minds still reeling from a plethora of stunning coloured images, one might imagine that our view of s...

Mixed singers and imitation singers among Short-toed Treecreepers

01 October 1988 Comments Main paper he identification of treecreepers Certhia has been a popular theme for discussion for many decades. In connection with the first British record of Short-toed Treecreeper C. brachydactyla (Scott 1976), Mead & Wallace (1976) gave a comprehensive t r e a t m...

Mystery photographs

01 October 1988 Comments Main paper Â·j 0 £ ? T h a t plate 214 (repeated on page 492) shows a small wader is l O O confirmed by the general proportions of the bird and the size of the s u r r o u n d i n g vegetation. T h i s provides a starting point for the identification. Since ...

Recent transatlantic vagrancy of landbirds and waders

01 October 1988 Comments Main paper n a previous paper (Elkins 1979), I described the results of an analysis of the relationship of Nearctic landbird vagrancy in Britain a n d Ireland to atmospheric conditions. T h e analysis, which found an i m p o r t a n t affinity of arrivals of such bi...

The 'British Birds' Best Bird Book of the Year

01 October 1988 Comments Main paper k>r the benefit of those who may wish to acquire (or give as a present) just one of the many bird books published each year, British Birds selects annually its choice of the 'Best Bird Book of the Year' from those reviewed in the journal during the previo...

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Characters and taxonomic position of Basra Reed Warbler

Announcements

Mystery photographs

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1987

Announcements

Best recent black and-white bird-photographs

Mixed singers and imitation singers among Short-toed Treecreepers

Mystery photographs

Recent transatlantic vagrancy of landbirds and waders

The 'British Birds' Best Bird Book of the Year

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