Announcements

01 March 1993
Comments Editorials 'The F a m o u s G r o u s e ' Scotch whisky Christmas puzzle. The solution to the puzzle set on page xiii in the December 1992 issue included the following four species': ROOK , SMEW, COOT and TEAL. The two commonest of the several corr...
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ICBP news

01 March 1993
Comments Editorials In Focus County Birdrace. Entries are now being taken for this year's In Focus County Birdrace. As usual, the event is open to teams of four, and the aim is to see as many species of bird as possible within the boundaries of a single county i...
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Announcements

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...
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Announcements

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...
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Announcements

01 September 1988
Comments Editorials The Arcachon tern We understand that the French Rarities Committee is still assessing the record of the yellow-billed tern Sterna at Arcachon, France, depicted recently in British Birds (81: 217, plate 118). Our captioning of this individual as Lesser Cre...
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Announcements

01 March 1988
Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year Once again, British Birds was the sponsor of this annual competition, which is run by the Young Ornithologists' Club, the junior section of the RSPB. The general standard of entries in the intermediate age-group and, espec...
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Announcements

01 February 1988
Comments Editorials Do you get your 'BB' late? If so, it is not our fault. With the exception every year of the January issue, copies of BB are despatched on the last Thursday of the month preceding the cover date (e.g. this February issue will have been despatched on 28th J...
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Announcements

01 January 1988
Comments Editorials T h e 'British Birds' Christopher H e l m collection Buy any three of these books, published by Christopher Helm Ltd, through British BirdShop and you can deduct £7.00 from the sum d u e . As a British Birds subscriber, you can also receive these bo...
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