Requests

01 December 1983
Comments Editorials Winter Atlas The BTO/IWC Winter Atlas is now in its third and final year of fieldwork. Counts of birds are wanted from all areas, but help is especially needed in parts of northwest Scotland, southwest England and Ireland. If you are able to help, plea...
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Announcements

01 December 1983
Comments Editorials Binding your BBs We should like to remind readers that special binders to hold a full year's issues can be purchased by post for £4.30 (overseas postage 35p extra) from Easibind, 42 Hoxton Square, London Nl 6NS. Standard book-binding of the year's iss...
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B.B. Tours

01 December 1983
Comments Editorials In this new venture (announced recently, Brit. Birds 76: 539-540), we offer exclusively to BB readers the chance to take part in some specially devised trips to good bird spots abroad. All the booking, accommodation and travelling arrangements will be ...
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Diary dates

01 December 1983
Comments Editorials This list covers events taking place during January to December 1984. We welcome submission of details for possible inclusion in the next list, covering July 1984 to June 1985.   6th-8th January BTO RINGING AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. H...
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Letters

01 December 1983
Comments Letters Shy Albatrosses, elusive Capped Petrels, and great accumulations of shearwaters It is curious how well the observation by Paul Buckley and William Russell, that some European birdwatchers do not appear to be making much progress with seabirds, ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 December 1983
Comments Other ' ON THE SONG OF THE WOOD-WARBLER; BY H. W. MAPLETON, B.A., M.B.O.U. IN May last, while availing myself of a very good opportunity of observing a Wood-Warbier in full song my attention was called to the fact that this bird has two distinct songs. As I ...
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Notes

01 December 1983
Comments Notes Apparent feeding association between Gannet and Cory's Shearwater On 1st November 1980, at Torremolinos, Spain, we were separately watching up to five first- and second-year Gannets Sula bassana feeding about 500-800 m offshore, and were attrac...
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