Corrections

01 December 1997 Comments Editorials Line 1, 'Brit. Birds 90: 1-22' should read '90: 25-62'. Tetrad Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Essex Price given as £17.50 should read £15.95. Fig. 8. Juvenile Wilson's Phalarope. Artist was Andy Wilson (not Stephen Mawby). Line 29, '31st September' s...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 December 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Acknowledgements

01 December 1997 Comments Editorials As well as the many people who help BB in a whole variety of ways, many of whose names are listed on the inside front cover each month, we should especially like to thank the following, who generously waived all or part of their photographic or artisti...
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Diary Dates

01 December 1997 Comments Editorials WORLD CONFERENCE ON BIRDS OF PREY AND OWLS. Midrand,  Johannesburg, South Africa. Details from Robin Chancellor, 15b Bolton Gardens, London sws OAI .; Dr Bemd-U. Meyburg, Wangenheimstrasse 32, 14193 Berlin, Germany; or Dr Gerhard H. Verdoom, ...
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Announcements

01 December 1997 Comments Editorials A rumour was circulating widely at the British Birdwatching Fair that the readership of British Birds was falling and had dropped to 4,900. Not true! The facts are that circulation has increased by 7% over the past 12 months, and has now reached almost...
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ICBP news

01 October 1992 Comments Editorials Puna Grebe new.s Bad news on the Puna Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii, endemic to Lake Junin in Peru and one of the world's most threatened birds. Once abundant, the population was estimated to have dropped to 200-300 individuals in 1987, but terrorist act...
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Announcements

01 October 1992 Comments Editorials Books in British BirdShop The following books have been added to the list this month: Cramp: Birds of the Western Palearctic vol. 6 Jonsson: The Birds of Europe For all your book orders, please use the British BirdShop order form on pages xi &...
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