Recent reports

01 July 1994
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 16th May to 19th June 1994 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis St Catherine's Point (Isle of Wight), 2nd May. Black Stork Ciconia nigra Near Byfleet (Surrey), 18th ...
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News and comment

01 July 1994
Comments News and comment IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED that campaigning works, this must be it. When, in spring 1993, the new President of Cyprus revoked his predecessor's antishooting legislation, Bill Oddie and Derek Moore, two well-known names with a long history of campaigning...
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Reviews

01 July 1994
Comments Reviews Identification Guide to European Non-Passerines. BTO Guide 24. By Kevin Baker. British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, 1993. 332 pages; 170 line-drawings. ISBN 0-903793-18-0. £15.00. This book has been designed for bird-ringers, but it is highly...
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Notes

01 July 1994
Comments Notes Great Cormorant 'playing' in up-currents, and reactions of birds to model sailplane. On 8th October 1990, at Watergate Bay, Cornwall, I was flying a radio-controlled model sailplane in orographic lift above die cliffs, where Eurasian Jackdaws Corvus mo...
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Bird photograph of the year

01 July 1994
Comments Main paper Take the best work of 1993 by the cream of Europe's bird-photographers, and you are sure to enjoy the show: but judging the best of the best becomes extraordinarily difficult. Such was the pleasure and the pain faced by photographic consultant, Don Smi...
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Announcements

01 July 1994
Comments Editorials The Rarities Committee's next new member. A vacancy will occur in the ranks of the British Birds Rarities Committee* on or before 1st April 1995 from resignation or the longest-serving member's automatic retirement. As usual, the Rarities Com...
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European news

01 July 1994
Comments Main paper This regular six-monthly feature summarises information for the whole of Europe (and some adjacent parts of the Western Palearctic) and has officially been adopted by the Association of European Rarities Committees for publication of compilations of ma...
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Monthly marathon

01 July 1994
Comments Other The sixth 'Monthly marathon' was won by Paul Archer [Brit. Birds 87: 305). The closing date for the first three hurdles of the seventh marathon (plates 60, 72 and 80, in the April, May and June issues) is 15th July 1994, so the answers will be given ne...
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