Letters

01 November 1994 Comments Letters Origin of European Pink-backed Pelicans. Following the report of a Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Spain (Brit. Birds 86: 374-375), and one near Sagrado, northeast Italy, in September 1992, as well as other observations farther north in Euro...
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Reviews

01 November 1994 Comments Reviews Finches and Sparrows: an identification guide. By Peter Clement. Illustrated by Alan Harris & John Davis. Christopher Helm Publishers, London, 1993. 500 pages; 73 colour plates; 44 line-drawings; over 280 distribution maps. ISBN 0-7136-8017-2. £29...
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Announcements

01 November 1994 Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report Entries are invited for the fourth annual award (see accounts of the first, second and third awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Br...
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BirdLife International news

01 April 1993 Comments Editorials Polish promise. In February, the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP) recruited its 1,000th member, just one year alter its formal launch in February 1992. I( also produced the first issue of its membership magazine. These excellent a...
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Announcements

01 April 1993 Comments Editorials Carl Zeiss Award. Carl Zelss-Germany, the sponsor of the British Birds Rarities Committee, has announced an extension of the Carl Zeiss Award. The high quality, sew-on, woven badges provided in recognition of the contributions made by photographers who...
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News and Comment

01 April 1993 Comments News and comment WITHIN A FORTNIGHT of the tanker Braer going aground near Sumburgh Head, Shetland, 1,000 birds had been picked up dead, well over 200 had been rescued alive and many more had been seen oiled. Half the victims were Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis, ...
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Reviews

01 April 1993 Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol 1. Ostrich to ducks. Edited by Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot & Jordi Sargatal. Lynx Editions, Barcelona, 1992. 696 pages; 446 colour plates; 568 distribution maps. ISBN 84-87334-09-1. £95.00.With various han...
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Letters

01 April 1993 Comments Letters Tree Swallow records in Britain. Whilst reading the recent report on 'Rare birds in Great Britain' (Brit. Birds 85: 507-554), I was surprised to read, under the 1990 Isles of Scilly record of Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor, the comment that it w...
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Notes

01 April 1993 Comments Notes Merlin stalking Dunlins on foot. On 7th November 1988, on the northern coast of the Eiderstedt peninsula, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, a Merlin Falco columbarius attracted my attention. It left its perch on a wooden post, flew a short distance and...
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