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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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

01 November 1994 Comments Main paper This, the Rarities Committee's thirty-sixth annual report, details records of rare birds in 1993: a year with many highlights and much to interest the rare-bird enthusiast. The Committee has again been supported by the sponsorship of Carl Zeiss (Oberko...

Grey Wagtail Passage in Britain in 1956-60

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper cinerea recorded at various of the coastal bird observatories in September 1959 (Williamson 1959), which focused attention on this species, requests for information were published in British Birds (53: 140 and 54: 131) and News for Naturalists (2: 15). Th...

Birds in Ireland during 1960-62

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper annual reports of the Rarities Committee (see Brit. Birds, 54: 174). The advantages of having all records of rarities within these islands considered by one body and collected together into one report are obvious, and it is very much to be hoped that a ha...

Notes

01 January 1964 Comments Notes Fulmar incubating eggs of Herring Gull with its own.--On 27th May 1963 I was walking along a cliff top four miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, when I surprised a Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis off its nest. As it flew, a brown egg rolled out and smashed on t...

Herd Composition and Dispersion in The Whooper Swan

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper Park, Banffshire, it became apparent that, within the herd that gathered during the autumn passage, swans in family parties (i.e. adults accompanied by young birds) were less wary and fed more widely spread out along the narrow part of the loch than swans...

British Bird-Photographers I. Seton Gordon

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper W I T H T H I S ISSUE we start a new series of plates devoted to the work of individual bird-photographers. At irregular intervals, three or four times a year, we propose to publish a selection of the best photographs by the well known and the not so well...

Winter Visitors

01 January 1964 Comments Editorials In many areas it was a poor autumn for visible migration of thrushes because conditions were seldom right to bring the birds low enough. However, big movements of Redwings Turdus iliacus were widely commented on 14th, I9th-20th, 22nd-23td and especially 2...

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