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 1981 Comments Reviews The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration. By R. R. Baker. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1978. xvii + 1012 pages; numerous blackand-white photographs and line-drawings. £35.00.  Reviewers as a class must surely agree with Callimachus...
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Recent reports

01 October 1981 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records Dates in this report refer to July unless otherwise stated. The weather during the first six days was unsettled as eastward moving weather-fronts crossed the country. Rather warmer air from...
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News and comment

01 October 1981 Comments News and comment North Sea Bird Watch The second annual report of the North Sea Bird Watch, co-ordinated by Dr R. A. F. Cox, has just been published listing the birds recorded at fixed and mobile installations on the Phillips Petroleum Company concessions in 19...
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Announcements

01 October 1981 Comments Editorials Peterson Sound Guide discs and cassettes special offer This offer is still open this month. See pages 400-401 in September issue for details. Please resubscribe now If your subscription falls due in January and you have not alrea...
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Letters

01 October 1981 Comments Letters Tree Pipits showing pale 'ear' spot The pale 'ear' spot of the Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni is a very useful supporting field feature of the species (see Brit. Birds 72: 95, for example) and this is borne out by my experien...
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Notes

01 October 1981 Comments Notes Sand Martins feeding on ground P. J. Oliver observed House Delichon urbica and Sand Martins Riparia riparia apparently feeding on the ground in the early morning {Brit. Birds 59: 499); an editorial comment suggested that they might be drinking ...
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