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Requests

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...

Request

01 March 1989 Comments Editorials Colour-marked birds: a reminder In general, we do not publish separate requests on this subject (there are too many local studies to include them all). If you see a bird marked in some way (other than with ordinary BTO rings), please report i...

Announcements

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