Monthly marathon

01 January 2015
Comments Other t would be unfair to penalise those competitors whose postcards have been delayed by the British postal strike, or those who were unable to send their entries at all because of blocked postboxes. We are, therefore, extending the deadline from 15th Septemb...
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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...
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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...
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Announcements

01 November 1988
Comments Editorials Waders If you are interested in the ageing, sexing and identification of waders, a new book, North Atlantic Shorebirds, due to be published in the new year, will include state-of-the-art text together with stunning colour photographs of every relevant plu...
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Letters

01 November 1988
Comments Letters 'Breeding status of the Gad wall in Britain and Ireland' Since the publication of this paper (Brit. Birds 81: 51-66), a number of inaccuracies and sources of additional information have been brought to my attention. Gadwalls Anas strepera did in fact bree...
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Notes

01 November 1988
Comments Notes Grey Heron ingesting junk O n 16th J u n e 1981, at West Sedgemoor, Somerset, I found a juvenile Grey Heron Ardea cinerea; extremely weak a n d almost prostate, it was easily caught. I took it to a nearby farm, where I was told that it had been seen in a ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1988
Comments Other 'THE RED-THROATED DIVER IN ITS BREEDING-HAUNTS. BYE. L. TVRNF.R. HON. MF.M. B.O.U. We can hardly imagine a greater contrast than that which exists between an English hedgerow in early June and the haunt of the Red-throated Diver. In the one: All little bi...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1988
Comments Main paper -j ' J ^ There are no other small birds around with which to compare X«3 / our mystery p a s s e r i n e (plates 242, 308 & 309), b u t it is obviously very small in comparison to the grass and clods of earth. From acombination of the size, relatively sm...
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