Rare bird references

01 October 1996 Comments Editorials A new book, A Reference Manual of Rare Birds in Great Britain and Ireland, compiled by K. A. Naylor, provides a unique and invaluable list of every rare bird recorded here up to 1957. Every record that has ever appeared in print is included (even those...
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The Carl Zeiss award

01 October 1996 Comments Editorials The Carl Zeiss Award is presented annually by Carl Zeiss Ltd tc encourage the submission of photographs (transparencies or prints) to assist the British Birds Rarities Committee in its assessment of records. The winner receives his or her choice oi Zei...
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Announcements

01 October 1996 Comments Editorials British Birds relies on subscription income, advertisement income, sponsorship support and donations. Anyone wishing to help BB can make a donation (small or large!) either for a specific purpose in BB's current expenditure or for our Investment Fund, ...
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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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