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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...

Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 July 1984 Comments Other 'We are very glad to be able to state that the scheme for marking birds with aluminium rings, outlined in our last number, has been well taken up, and we take this opportunity of thanking those of our readers who are helping by putting on the rings and...

Mystery Photographs

01 July 1984 Comments Editorials What we have in plate 89 (and repeated here) is a robust lark, standing on a rock, with the breeze creating a 'black hole' in its breast and perhaps exaggerating its crest. From the relative size of its bill and its legs, it is not a small bird, and th...

Product Reports

01 July 1984 Comments Editorials Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...

Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard Richardson Award'

01 July 1984 Comments Main paper Having presented the prizes for several years, Keith Shackleton joined the permanent judges and soon discovered what a lengthy and difficult exercise it is to sort out winners from 55 artists submitting 220 drawings. The winners were as follows:Two art...

Notes

01 July 1984 Comments Notes Black-necked Grebe jump-diving. Without being claimed as an absolutely diagnostic identification feature, it is generally assumed in the literature that the Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis does not usually leap out of the water when diving. BWP...

Identification of Stints and Peeps

01 July 1984 Comments Main paper The precision and supreme artistry of Lars Jonsson's stint paintings (plates 113 to 120) fully match the complexities of the subject. They bear the closest inspection, and provide a further major advance in stint identification, building especially on ...

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