Requests

01 April 1992
Comments Editorials Photographs of King Eiders For a forthcoming paper in British Birds, by Pete Ellis, Dave Suddaby and Ken Shaw, photographs are required of King Eiders Somateria spectabilis, particularly of females and non-adult males. All photographs will be acknowled...
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Announcements

01 April 1992
Comments Editorials With 'BB' to Israel. After the very successful exploratory trip in 1991 (Brit. Birds 85: 127129), BB subscribers now have a second chance to join Hadoram Shirihai watching raptor migration, searching for migrants and cruising on the Red Sea looking at ...
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ICBP news

01 April 1992
Comments Editorials Racing for the steppes. Next month there is the annual County Bird Race: a chance to test your birding skills, as well as raise money for top-priority conservation. If you had taken part in the County Bird Race 200 years ago, and were competing in East...
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Fieldwork action BTO news

01 April 1992
Comments Editorials 'Nesting' helps bird conservation If, during the course of the spring and early summer, you come across the odd nest in a hedgerow or even in your garden, recording what you see on a card we supply can help towards the understanding and the conservatio...
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Reviews

01 April 1992
Comments Reviews A Field Guide to the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe. Illustrated by Ian Lewington. Text by Per Alström & Peter Colston. HarperCollins, London, 1991. 448 pages; 129 colour plates; 409 line-drawings. £14.99. Little more than four years ag...
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Letters

01 April 1992
Comments Letters Priorities for conservationists. I read with interest Sir Derek Barber's 'Viewpoint' article (Brit. Birds 84: 432-435) and am in broad agreement with many of his points. I think, however, that education is the most basic item that conservationists shou...
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Notes

01 April 1992
Comments Notes Griffon Vulture drowning in sea. In the afternoon of 18th September 1988, we visited Cabo Trafalgar, Cadiz, southwest Spain, to look at seabirds. The wind was not very favourable, being strong easterly. After a while, we discovered a Griffon Vulture Gy...
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Raptor migration at Eilat

01 April 1992
Comments Main paper Raptor migration at Eilat. Hadoram Shirihai and David A. Christie.  Recent work has shown that Eilat in southern Israel is one of the best places in the world for observing migrating Palearctic raptors. This paper describes the huge raptor...
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News and comment

01 April 1992
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. EC Habitats Directive. European wildlife conservationists saw December 1991 as a month to remember. After years of wrangling, European Community Environment Minist...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1992
Comments Other 'The note uttered by these Northern Willow-Wrens was distinctly shriller than that of our resident bird. It seems remarkable that there should be a clear distinction between the call-notes of Ph. t. trochilus and Ph. t. eversmanni, as well as between P...
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