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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 April 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records December was the mildest for many years, dominated by westerly weather from the Atlantic. An anticyclone which persisted to the south of Britain caused depressions to move across on...

News and comment

01 April 1975 Comments News and comment Waterway vandalism It was with considerable alarm that naturalists learned recently that the Severn-Trent Water Authority proposed to introduce a new byelaw compelling owners of lands fronting a river to cut down all trees, shrubs, reeds and ot...

Announcement by the Rarities Committee

01 April 1975 Comments Editorials The formal transfer of secretarial duties in the committee will take place on ist May 1975. On and after that date, all rare bird records should be sent to J. N. Dymond, R.S.P.B., The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 2DL. It would be appreciated if this...

Letters

01 April 1975 Comments Letters Effects of agricultural change on birds I have found the correspondence between Derek Barber, and Dr R. K. Murton and N. J. Westwood {Brit. Birds, 67: 395-396, 485-487), of considerable interest, for I strongly suspect that hedgerows have,...

Reviews

01 April 1975 Comments Reviews Ocean Wanderers. The migratory sea birds of the world. By Ronald M. Lockley. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1974. 168 pages; 9 colour and 39 black-and-white photographs; 22 maps. £4.50. This picture is painted on a broad canvas. The author...

Notes

01 April 1975 Comments Notes Kestrel apparently attempting to catch Goldfish In 1974 a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus nested in a beech coppice near my house near Blackboys, East Sussex, and frequently hunted for beetles and mice in the ha-ha which divides my garden from a fiel...

Studies of breeding Sandwich Terns

01 April 1975 Comments Main paper It is opportune that a series of Jan van de Kam's wonderful photographs of Sandwich Terns Sterna sandvicensis at a Dutch breeding colony (plates 16-23) should appear at a time when the European population is threatened at both ends of its range. The ef...

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