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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Corrections

01 December 1997
Comments Editorials Line 1, 'Brit. Birds 90: 1-22' should read '90: 25-62'. Tetrad Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Essex Price given as £17.50 should read £15.95. Fig. 8. Juvenile Wilson's Phalarope. Artist was Andy Wilson (not Stephen Mawby). Line 29, '31st September' s...
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Recent reports

01 December 1997
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 13th October to 9th November 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Great White Egret Egretta alba Cape Clear Island, 26th October, same at Sc...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 December 1997
Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Letter

01 December 1997
Comments Letters In his letter on the hybridisation of Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis and Whiteheaded Ducks O. leucocephala, Dr David Harper {Brit. Birds 90: 325-327) unfortunately chose to refer to the expansion into Europe of Syrian Woodpeckers Dendrocopos syriacus i...
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Notes

01 December 1997
Comments Notes With reference to Philip Palmer's note and photograph (Brit. Birds 86: 627, plate 231), it is not unusual for Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus to perch on overhead wires in The Gambia. Others and I have observed this and, indeed, one birdwatcher born and br...
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