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Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Recent reports

01 October 1989 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 11th August to 15th September 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis Porthgwarra (Cornwall), singles on 13th and 14th August. Little Egret Egretta garze...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 1987

01 October 1989 Comments Main paper ...

Monthly marathon

01 October 1989 Comments Other The bird in plate 236 was named by competitors as: Green-backed Butorides striatus (85%) Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis (7%) Purple Heron Ardea purpurea (4%) Black Egret Egretta ardesiaca (3%). The majority got it right; the superb photograph of a ...

PhotoSpot. 28. Canary Islands Chaffinch

01 October 1989 Comments Main paper For a nation to whom the common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs is so ubiquitous, the most striking features of the female Canary Islands Chaffinch F. teydea are not its similarities to that species, but its obvious differences: primarily, its larger ...

Mystery photographs

01 October 1989 Comments Main paper This small crouching passerine looks like a pipit Anthus, but has a seed-eater's bill. The tail is quite long, and the plumage is comparatively plain but for a fairly strong head pattern and some distinct streaking on the underparts. From this com...

Best recent black-and-white bird photographs

01 October 1989 Comments Main paper We present this year a selection of 15 photographs by six photographers. Tony Hamblin has had no less than six photographs included, an all-time record; it is the fourth year in which his photographs have been selected. Tony Bond's work is represented ...

Monthly reports: May 1989

01 October 1989 Comments News and comment Settled anticyclonic weather predominated during the month. For the first ten days, the high-pressure area was centred over Britain and Ireland with higher-than-average temperatures. On 11th, the pressure declined, and cold unsettled weather arrived fr...

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