Letters

01 November 1994
Comments Letters Origin of European Pink-backed Pelicans. Following the report of a Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Spain (Brit. Birds 86: 374-375), and one near Sagrado, northeast Italy, in September 1992, as well as other observations farther north in Euro...
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Reviews

01 November 1994
Comments Reviews Finches and Sparrows: an identification guide. By Peter Clement. Illustrated by Alan Harris & John Davis. Christopher Helm Publishers, London, 1993. 500 pages; 73 colour plates; 44 line-drawings; over 280 distribution maps. ISBN 0-7136-8017-2. £29...
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Announcements

01 November 1994
Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report Entries are invited for the fourth annual award (see accounts of the first, second and third awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Br...
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Recent reports

01 August 1992
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th June to 17th July 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 15th July. Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis 30, Cape Clear I...
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News and comment

01 August 1992
Comments News and comment French disgrace. On behalf of the RSPB, ME took part in a protest in early May against the spring shooting of migrant Turtle Doves Streptopelia turtur in Medoc, France. The protest was led by the Ligue Française pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LP...
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Letters

01 August 1992
Comments Letters Little Grebe apparently imprinted on female Mallard. With reference to the note on a juvenile Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis apparently imprinted on a female Mallard Anas platyrhynchos [Brit. Birds 82: 116), might it not be that the Mallard h...
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Announcements

01 August 1992
Comments Editorials Books in British Bird Shop. The following books have been added to the list this month: Brucker, Gosler & Heryet: The Birds of Oxfordshire. Trodd & Kramer: The Birds of Bedfordshire. For all your book orders, please use the British BirdSho...
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Seventy-five years age

01 August 1992
Comments Other 'SWALLOW NESTING IN A DUG-OUT IN FRANCE. My son, 2nd-Lieut. Eliot Wallis, writes to me that, seeing a Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica) come out of a deserted German dug-out in northeast France, he looked and found a nest ''with four spotted eggs" abou...
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Notes

01 August 1992
Comments Notes 'Water-boiling' display by Whooper and Bewick's Swans. From the mid 1980s, at Welney, Norfolk, we have noticed a regularly occurring display by Whooper Cygnus cygnus and Bewick's Swans C. columbianus feeding in high densities on waste potatoes tipped o...
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