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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 May 1994 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 22nd March to 17th April 1994 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris Regular individual returned to Hermaness (Shetland), 26th March. Black Stork Cico...

Monthly marathon

01 May 1994 Comments Other February's breast-banded passerine (plate 33) was named as Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris (66%), Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (21%), Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (11%) and Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla (2%), It was a juvenile Ho...