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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...

Some notes on the Crested Lark

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland. For most of the time two of us were together. In 1946 one of us was for a short time again in Germany. Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristata) were seen wher...

Letters

01 June 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Royal Naval Bird-Watching Society has now been in existence for just over a year. I t has some t w o hundred and sixty members drawn from the ranks of t h e Royal Navy, Royal Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Navies. These observers range fr...

Notes

01 June 1948 Comments Notes As a member of the local fire brigade I was able to make some close observations on the behaviour of birds at a big oil-tank fire at Pembroke Dock in August and September, 1940. The fire blazed for many days and gave rise to intense heat and an immense c...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XIV. The Spotted Redshank

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper Photographed by OLOF SWANBERG AND ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN. (Plates 17-21). THE present photographs of the Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythrofus) are the first of a long series of remarkable photographs of Scandinavian breeding birds--most of them species occurr...

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper Ringed. Recovered. Rossitten, East Prussia, Newport Pagnell released Konigsberg 10.5.39 (Bucks.) 6.1.40 D51168 Rossitten 14.4.34 Sarratt (Herts.) 8.3.42 SCANDINAVIAN JACKDAW (Corvus m. monedula). Ringed. Recovered. U3240 Alvsborg, Sweden, young 5.6.39 Rad...

Report on the Inland passage of Arctic and Common Tern in the Spring of 1947

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper IN the spring of 1947 there occurred an exceptional inland passage of Arctic (Sterna macrura) and Common Terns (S. h. hirundo) in England and Wales, concerning which a preliminary notice was published in June in British Birds (antea, Vol. xl, p. 189). The...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

Some notes on the Crested Lark

Letters

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XIV. The Spotted Redshank

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

Report on the Inland passage of Arctic and Common Tern in the Spring of 1947

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