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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...

Recent Reports and News

01 July 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgement alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...

Notes

01 July 1960 Comments Notes Olivaceous Warbler i n Co. Donegal.--At about 6 p.m. on 29th September 1959 I found a strange warbler among the small walled enclosures of the lighthouse grounds at the western end of Tory Island, Co. Donegal. The light was very poor and fading, so that b...

The behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows while rearing young

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper 1959 OBSERVATIONS were made on the behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) rearing their second brood of young in an observation nest-box in the suburban district of Pinner, Middlesex. Fixed near the eaves of a house and eighteen feet ab...

M. S. Wood's garden and bird-table photography

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper graphs of birds in aggressive attitudes shown in this issue, had been recognised as a first-class bird photographer of the conventional type for many years before circumstances forced him to less conventional methods. His family was well known in Lancashi...

Bird of prey numbers on a Hampshire game-preserve during 1952-1959

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper hawks I saw during visits to an estate of approximately 4,000 acres in west Hampshire. T h e species involved were Buzzard (Buteo buteo), Sparrowhawk and Goshawk (Actipiter nisus and gentilis), Marsh, Hen and Montagu's Harriers {Circus aeruginosus, cyaneu...

Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper D U R I N G T H E W I N T E R of 1958-59 I collected 113 pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) beneath roosts in a disused quarry near the Dale estuary, Pembrokeshire. The quarry is on a steep bracken-covered hillside surrounded by farmland and the salt...

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