Request

01 April 1990
Comments Editorials Systematic counts of Lapwings or Golden Plovers. I am keen to collate information regarding seasonal changes in the numbers of wintering Lapwings Vanellus vanellus and Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria, and the timing of cold-weather emigrations by th...
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Announcements

01 April 1990
Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year. The results of the 1989 competition, run as usual by the Young Ornithologists' Club and sponsored by British Birds, were as follows: JUNIOR (under 10 years old) 1st HUW PRIOR (8) of Chichester, West Sussex 2nd CAROLINE...
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Fieldwork action

01 April 1990
Comments Editorials Atlas fieldwork in the Irish Republic: grants for expeditions and job vacancies To ensure coverage of the New Breeding Atlas is complete by the end of the 1990 field season, the BTO is providing grants towards the expenses of Atlas fieldwork expedition...
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Editorial

01 January 1980
Comments Editorials At a time when price increases are an all too familiar part of life, it is very pleasing to us and to Macmillan Journals Ltd that, due to the doubling of the number of subscribers in the past two years, the basic subscription price of British Birds can...
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Requests

01 January 1980
Comments Editorials Colour-marked Ringed Plovers and other waders In the August 1979 issue (Brit. Birds 72: 394), Dr A. Siefke of Vogelwarte Hiddensee requested sightings of colour-ringed Ringed Plovers Charadrius hiaticula. Unknown to each other, Dr Siefke and I ...
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Announcements

01 January 1980
Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year The 1979 winners are B. Bree (aged 16) of Jersey in the senior age-group, Jane Cutler (12) of London in the intermediate age-group, and Paul Chapman (8) of Carlisle in the junior age-group. Fuller details will a...
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Photographic requests

01 January 1980
Comments Editorials We hope that bird-photographers can help us by supplying black-andwhite prints of the species listed below. These are needed to illustrate papers currently in preparation. We try to show each species in a variety of plumages and situations, so tha...
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