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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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Recent reports

01 March 1989 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th January to 10th February 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Billingham (Cleveland), from at least 31st January. Long-billed Dowitcher L...

Monthly marathon

01 March 1989 Comments Other December's wader (Brit. Birds 81: plate 353) was named by entrants as: Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (73%) Least Sandpiper C. minutilla (12%) Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (7%) Temminck's Stint C. temminckii (3%), with a small n u m b e r of entr...

News and Comment

01 March 1989 Comments News and comment Official opening by Tony Soper o f'The ZEISS West Germany Wild Goose Observatory' at The Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, November 1988. Left to right, Dr Brian Bertram (Director General), Lady Scott, Sir Peter Scott, Miss Eileen Parsons (Z...

Reviews

01 March 1989 Comments Reviews The Birdwatcher's Yearbook and Diary 1989. Edited by John Pemberton. Buckingham Press, Maids Moreton, 1988. 320 pages; 17 black-and-white plates; 8 line-drawings. Paperback £8.75. The format follows very closely that of previous years, with some ...

Points of view. 17. Will suppression become the norm?

01 March 1989 Comments Main paper Unfortunately, birdwatching is becoming the victim of its own success. The advent of a telephone information service has meant that news of rarities no longer travels in slowly increasing concentric circles. Previously, news was disseminated in su...

Monthly reports: October 1988

01 March 1989 Comments News and comment High pressure over Europe affected the weather for most of the month. For the first five days, the anticyclone covered southern England, with westerly cyclonic weatherfarther north over Scotland. The latter moved south over Britain and Ireland as press...

Request

01 March 1989 Comments Editorials Colour-marked birds: a reminder In general, we do not publish separate requests on this subject (there are too many local studies to include them all). If you see a bird marked in some way (other than with ordinary BTO rings), please report i...

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