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01 May 1995 Comments Editorials Photographs of 1994 rarities needed. Colour prints, black-and-white prints and colour transparencies are needed to illustrate the Rarities Committee's next report. Please send prints or slides (as soon as possible) to Mrs Sheila Cobban, British Birds, ...

The famous Grouse' Scotch whisky Christmas puzzle: the solution

01 May 1995 Comments Editorials 1. The Honey-buzzard will dig a huge hole, sometimes almost burying itself, as it excavates a wasps' nest. 2. An ancient stone circle on The Machars in Dumfries & Galloway is known as the Wren's Egg. 3. Runaway slaves were known as 'blackbirds'. 4....

Rarities committee news and announcements

01 May 1995 Comments Editorials Alan Brown retired from the British Birds Rarities Committee as longest-serving member on 31st March 1995. Nominations for his replacement were invited via a number of publications during 1994. No nomination was made by the Committee itself, opening up...

Rarities committee news and announcements

01 October 1985 Comments Editorials Committee membership is listed on the inside front cover each month, and on the back of the title page. In the absence of further nominations (Brit. Birds 77: 292), Iain Robertson started his official term of membership on 1st April this year, having e...

The 'British Birds' best bird book of the year

01 October 1985 Comments Editorials For 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 pre...

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01 October 1985 Comments Editorials Meeting of Working Group on Granivorous Birds—INTECOL. A general meeting of the Group will take place on 13th August 1986, in the course of the IV International Congress of Ecology, which will be held at Syracuse, New York, USA, during 10th-16th Augu...

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