Letters

01 November 1999
Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...
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Looking back

01 November 1999
Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...
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News and comment

01 December 1981
Comments News and comment New NNRs The Nature Conservancy Council has announced the creation of two new National Nature Reserves. The Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods NNR, covering some 300 ha, has been formed with three major additions to the former Workmans NNR: the co...
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Requests

01 December 1981
Comments Editorials Winter Atlas The BTO and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy have launched a major project, the Winter Adas. Fieldwork starts in mid November and continues until the end of February in each of. the next three winters (in 1981/82, the precise dates a...
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Announcements

01 December 1981
Comments Editorials Gift subscriptions Readers are reminded that special gift cards are available so that British Birds can be given as a present to a friend. You may obtain such gift subscriptions at the same rate as your own; the gift card will be sent separatel...
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Diary dates

01 December 1981
Comments Editorials This list covers events taking place during January to December 1982. We welcome submission of details for possible inclusion in the next list, coveringjuly 1982 to June 1983.  8th-10th January BTO RINGING AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. Hayes C...
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Letters

01 December 1981
Comments Letters Wintering Bitterns in Britain The recent paper by Dr C. J. Bibby on wintering Bitterns Botaurus stellaris in Britain (Brit. Birds 74: 1-10) illustrated that the population is supplemented in winter by immigration to this country of Bitterns fro...
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Notes

01 December 1981
Comments Notes Leach's Petrel possibly feeding on worm  O n 30th September 1978, at Formby Point, Merseyside, D r B. McCarthy, myself and others were watching a large southerly movement of Leach's Petrels Oceanodroma leucorhoa, many of which were pa...
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