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Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Recent reports

01 September 1995 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 10th July to 13th A u g u s t 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Fetlar (Shetland), 17th-24th July. ...

Monthly marathon

01 September 1995 Comments Other We greatly regret that the closing dates for the last two hurdles (plates 97 and 111) were given incorrectly as 15th July and 15th August, instead of 15th August and 15th September, respectively. We are, therefore, extending the deadline for receipt of...

News and comment

01 September 1995 Comments News and comment It is not often that the members of the 'N & c' team take the unusual step of giving themselves a pat on the back. Just occasionally we feel we deserve it. Under the heading 'Chemicals and the environment' (Brit. Birds 88: 247), we expressed the op...

From the rarities committee's files. Lanceolated Warbler in Norfolk, Lanceolated Warbler in Shetland

01 September 1995 Comments Main paper Two reports, selected for this feature as examples of high-quality submissions, coincidentally concerned the same species: Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata. One relates primarily to in-the-hand examination and the other to field observations. ...

Photospot. 37. Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus

01 September 1995 Comments Main paper Back in 1966, separating Long-billed from Short-billed Dowitchers L. griseus was not well understood and this bird generated a good deal of heat--not only in Cornwall. It was while trying to get decent shots of this individual that we became attracted ...

The Carl Zeiss award

01 September 1995 Comments Main paper The purpose of this annual award, presented by Carl Zeiss Ltd, is to 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 o...

Reviews

01 September 1995 Comments Reviews The Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. By Ian J. Andrews. I. J.Andrews, Musselburgh, 1995. 185 pages; 32 colour plates; 85 black-and-white illustrations; 17 maps, ISBN 0-9524978-0-8. Paperback £18.50. This is an excellent book and long overdue,...

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