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Fieldwork action

01 November 1991 Comments Editorials Regional Development Officers. During 1992-93, the BTO will be setting up a new regional network. This will consist of BTO members keen to promote the BTO at the local level in a systematic way. The new volunteers will be called Regional Development Of... Read More

Notes

01 November 1991 Comments Notes Herons alighting on sea. On 31st August 1985, from the Zuluf offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf, N. J. S. Drummond and I observed a migrating flight of seven Purple Herons Ardea purpurea flying very low over the sea. One of them suddenly a... Read More

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1990

01 November 1991 Comments Main paper Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1990. This is the thirty-third annual report of the Rarities Committee, and for the ninth consecutive year Carl Zeiss-Germany has sponsored the Committee's work. We are most appreciative of this financial assist... Read More

Obituary: Leslie Hilton Brown, OBE, BSc, PhD (1917-1980)

01 May 1981 Comments Obituaries When I said goodbye to Leslie Brown on that late May afternoon in Aviemore, I had a premonition that I would not see him again. We had spent an unforgettable evening at Roy Dennis's house, listening to Leslie's yarns about Africa and its wildlife, his ... Read More