Mystery photographs

01 September 1994
Comments Main paper A quick glance at the bill of this month's mystery bird (plate 116, on page 442) should have quickly narrowed down the options to a finch (Fringillidae), bunting (Emberizidae) or sparrow (Passeridae). A closer look at the bill reveals a distinct 'S' sh...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1994
Comments Other The two birds shown in plate 94 were named as White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons (37%), Bean Geese A. fabalis (35%), Pink-footed Geese A. brachyrhynchus (14%), Greylag Geese A. anser (8%) and Lesser White-fronted Geese A. erythropus (6%), wi...
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News and comment

01 September 1994
Comments News and comment TRAVELLING in the north of England recently, we came across an interesting piece of wet-meadow land. It did not cover a great area, yet a few breeding Eurasian Curlews Nummius arquata were bubbling overhead and obviously had young nearby. An occasional...
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The Carl Zeiss award

01 September 1994
Comments Main paper The Carl Zeiss Award is presented every year as an encouragement to photographers to submit to the British Birds Rarities Committee prints and transparencies which might be helpful during the process of assessment of records of rare birds. Attention is...
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Notes

01 September 1994
Comments Notes Avocets feeding in compact spinning group. In early February 1990, at Big Lake in the Djoudj National Park for Birds, Senegal, large numbers of Avocets Recurvirostra avosetta were feeding normally in water some 20 cm deep. Suddenly, 150-200 of them dre...
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Announcements

01 September 1994
Comments Editorials 'BB' overseas trips. BB subscribers can claim a 10% reduction on any of the following 1995 trips, organised by SUNB1RD, sponsors of 'Monthly marathon': THAILAND 5th-23rd Feb./extension to 1st March. Phil Round, Jon Dunn & Tim Sharrock NORTHERN ISRA...
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