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 October 1992 Comments News and comment This sumnary covers the period 15th August to 3rd September 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 21st August. Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva Pagha...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1992 Comments Other It was a Greater Yellowlegs, photographed in Florida, USA, in April by Gordon Langsbury. Of the leading contestants, none fell at this hurdle. The eventual winner of this competition, which is turning into a real endurance test, will be able to choose ...
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News and comment

01 October 1992 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'.  BOC 100. Congratulations! The British Ornithologists' Club was founded on 5th October 1892. Over the past 100 years, the club has provided its members w...
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Reviews

01 October 1992 Comments Reviews The Birds of Oxfordshire. Edited by J. W. Brucker, A. G. Gosler & A. R. Heryet. The Nature Conservation Bureau, Newbury, 1992. 288 pages; 8 colour plates; 150 line-drawings; 92 maps; 57 histograms. £27.95.The species accounts occupy one-third of t...
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ICBP news

01 October 1992 Comments Editorials Puna Grebe new.s Bad news on the Puna Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii, endemic to Lake Junin in Peru and one of the world's most threatened birds. Once abundant, the population was estimated to have dropped to 200-300 individuals in 1987, but terrorist act...
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Seventy-five years age

01 October 1992 Comments Other 'A SPOTTED REDSHANK IN NORFOLK. It may be of interest to record that on September 7th, 1917, I saw a Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) standing beside a dirty pond on the main road between Syderstone and Docking, practically in the village of Syders...
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