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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Recent reports

01 June 1990 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 6th April to 10th May 1990 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides Elmley RSPB Reserve (Kent), 7th-10th May. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Near Freshwater (Isle of Wigh...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1990 Comments Main paper Entrants obviously found this an easier problem than we had expected. We thought that many more readers would be led astray by the streaked (almost striped) lower breast/belly of this Redwing, showing the dark and strongly marked underparts of the Icel...
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News and comment

01 June 1990 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. A word from the authors. The 'News and comment' postbag contains a growing number of what amount to requests for free advertising for all manner of products. Unles...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 June 1990 Comments Other 'BIRDS AND SHELL-FIRE. I have lately been reading various articles in the papers regarding birds in the war-stricken parts of France, so I thought you might care to have a few of my personal observations on this subject . . . The House-Sparrows continu...
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Short reviews

01 June 1990 Comments Reviews Caring for your Pet Bird. By Dr R. Dean Axelson. (Revised edn. Sterling Publishing, New York; Cassell, London, 1989. 68 pages. Paperback £5.95) An informative guide to diseases of captive birds, which might help in treatment of injured wild birds. TIM...
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Reviews

01 June 1990 Comments Reviews The Macmillan Field Guide to North Atlantic Shorebirds. By Richard J. Chandler. Macmillan, London & Basingstoke, 1989. £12.95. From the viewpoint of the average British birdwatcher, this attractive field guide would seem most likely to compet...
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