Announcements

01 January 1994 Comments Editorials Bird Photograph of the Year This annual competition is once again sponsored by two longstanding friends of British Birds, the publishing firms Christopher Helm (Publishers) and HarperCollins' Entrants should read the rules carefully (see Brit. Birds 84...
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Requests

01 January 1994 Comments Editorials Dark-rumped petrels. For a forthcoming paper on unidentified dark-rumped petrels, Stephen Morrison would like to receive all records of these enigmas seen in the northeast Atlantic. Details required should include at least the following: location and d...
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Photographic requirements

01 January 1994 Comments Editorials Photographs needed, please. For forthcoming papers, we need original colour transparencies, colour prints or black-and-white prints of the following species: Gyr Falcon Falco rusticolus (ID, all plumages) Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva (ID,...
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Requests

01 March 1985 Comments Editorials Colour-marked and wing-tagged Eiders. The Shetland Oil Terminal Environmental Advisory Group is studying the local and long-distance movements of Eiders Somateria mollisiima by marking the males: the white plumage is dyed yellow, a yellow darvic tag is...
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Announcements

01 March 1985 Comments Editorials Christmas Whisky Puzzle. We received 46 correct solutions to the competition set on page xv of the December 1984 issue.  Whitethroat ('what' surrounding 'it or the' jumbled) Avocet ('ova' turned, followed by 'CET') Linnet ('let' with 'inn' in...
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