Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters D o some Wallcreepers migrate? Recent letters by David Elias, H. G. Alexander and Guy Mountfort on the movements of the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria referred respectively to observations in Cyprus (Brit. Birds, 63: 393-394) and the Indo-Pakistan subc...
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Reviews

01 May 2002
Comments Reviews PHEASANTS, PARTRIDGES AND GROUSE By Steve Madge and Phil McGowan, with Guy M. Kirwan. Illustrated by Norman Arlott, Robin Budden, Daniel Cole, John Cox, Carl D'Silva, Kim Franklin and David Mead. Christopher Helm, A & C Black, London, 2002. 488 pag...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 2002
Comments Other Given that the closing date for the first three stages of the twelfth `Marathon' was extended to 30th April, the solution to the first two stages, photos 185 and 186, will appear in the June issue of British Birds.155. `Monthly Marathon'. Photo no. 188...
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Rarities Committee news

01 May 2002
Comments News and comment At the recent Annual General Meeting of the BBRC, held on 9th-10th March at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, we discussed a number of species whose records it might be appropriate for the Committee to consider. These included White Stork Ciconia ciconia, S...
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News and Comment

01 May 2002
Comments News and comment Most readers of British Birds will be familiar with the name Richard Richardson. Many older readers will also have fond memories of happy hours spent in his company at the seaward end of the East Bank at Cley in Norfolk, either overlooking Arnold's Mar...
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Obituary

01 May 2002
Comments Obituaries On 31st January 2002, Professor Dr K. H. Voous, a winner of the Gold Medal of the British Ornithologists' Union, an Honorary Member of the BOU and an Honorary Subscriber to British Birds, died at his home in Huizen, the Netherlands. He was in his 81st ...
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Letters

01 May 2002
Comments Letters The trouble with debates about the identity of potential `firsts' (e.g. Brit. Birds 95: 12-16) is that they may delay the recognition of new species deserving special attention. In July 1989, for example, two dark-rumped storm-petrels caught at Tynemou...
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Looking back

01 May 2002
Comments Other GREAT GREY SHRIKE IN KENT IN SPRING. ON April 6th, 1927, my son, W. H. Hale, and I saw a Great Grey Shrike (Lanius e. excubitor) at Hothfield. It is well known that as an autumn and winter visitor this bird occurs almost every year in Kent, bu...
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