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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Reviews

01 March 1983
Comments Reviews Sounds Natural. Cassette SN792. Wildfowl Trust: Wildfowl Portraits No. 1. With Mike Lubbock and Ken Jackson. Cassette SN817 Blenheim Birdsong in Spring. With Bruce Campbell and Ken Jackson. Sounds Natural, Charlbury, 1981. Cassettes £3.00, slide sets ...
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Recent reports

01 March 1983
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports not authenticated records. All dates refer to December unless stated otherwise, but many late November records are also included. Please remember that reports are required as quickly as possible after the end...
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News and comment

01 March 1983
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'.  Montagu's Harriers. In three years, theLorraine (France) population of Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus has quadrupled: in 1981 a count revealed 1...
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Announcements

01 March 1983
Comments Editorials 'Seabirds: an identification guide' This major new book has been illustrated and written by Peter Harrison. If that name is not yet familiar to you, the reason may be that he has spent most of the past seven years on ships, travelling the world's ocean...
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Letters

01 March 1983
Comments Letters Small Golden Plovers. A. Pym's excellent paper on the identification of Lesser Golden Plovers Pluvialis dominica (Brit. Birds 75: 112-124) mentions the occurrences of 'apparent hybrids' in the USSR and Malta. I strongly suspect that such birds also app...
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