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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Reviews

01 October 1979
Comments Reviews Bedfordshire Bird Atlas. By B. D. Harding. Bedfordshire Natural History Society, Luton, 1979. 144 pages; over 120 maps; 113 line-drawings by Ray Turley. £4.70.  When the BTO and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy launched their atlas survey i...
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Short Reviews

01 October 1979
Comments Reviews Kestrels in the Kitchen: the story of Bob and Pat Ratcliffe. By Meg Elizabeth Atkins. (VV. H. Allen, London, 1979. 184 pages; 17 black-and-white photographs. £4.95.) 'Kestrels, owls, gulls, buzzards, heron, geese, ducks, mynahs and crows livin...
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Recent Reports

01 October 1979
Comments News and comment We are sorry to report that S. C. Madge has decided to discontinue his joint authorship of this feature. We thank Steve for all his work on our behalf since August 1977. His successor is R. A. Hume, who will be joining Keith Allsopp as regular compiler...
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News and Comment

01 October 1979
Comments News and comment Eddie Watkinson We were sorry to learn from Pat Watkinson that Eddie has recently had his right lung removed: he is making good progress after the operation and, hopefully, he will be home in Mallorca by the time this appears in print; our best...
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Summary of spring and summer

01 October 1979
Comments Main paper The study of spring migration by radar has shown that the main movements proceed undetected on the ground, and that it is only the smaller ones taking place under adverse weather conditions which result in coastal 'falls'. A total of about 10 million m...
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