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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Mystery Photographs

01 July 1986
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery photograph (plate 158, repeated here) clearly showed an eagle. Although it perhaps looked like a rather short version of a White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla without the typical wedge-shaped tail of that species (note, however...
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Reactions of birds to heavy rain

01 July 1986
Comments Main paper A note by myself and another by David A. Christie on the reactions of wildfowl and waders to rain and hail (Brit. Birds 77: 20-21), with a request for other observations on the subject, stimulated a further 11 notes describing the behaviour of birds in...
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Request

01 July 1986
Comments Editorials Bad photographs In 'Mystery photographs' we like to include good photographs of difficult specics. For our competitions at Conferences, however, and for use in our 'Monthiy marathon' competition, we need prints ofthose photographs which photographers r...
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Announcements

01 July 1986
Comments Editorials New books in British BirdShop. In addition to the continuing special offers concerning The Frontiers of Bird Identification and volumes I and II of The Birds ofAfrica, we can now also offer the following new books:Please use the form on page ...
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