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Young Ornithologists Of The Year

01 December 1998 Comments Main paper It was pleasing this year to have an increased number of entries, the majority of a very high standard. The six judges--representing British Birds, the British Birds Rarities Committee, the British Ornithologists' Union, the British Trust for Ornitholo...

Young Ornithologists Of the Year

01 December 1997 Comments Main paper Our aims in this competition are to foster, recognise and reward the proper recording of observations for use in county and regional bird reports and national projects such as those organised by the BTO. We hope to encourage today's generation of young...

Young Ornithologists of the year

01 December 1996 Comments Main paper The judges assembled again at 'Fountains' for another thoroughly enjoyable day of comparing and assessing the field notebooks (and more-permanent records) of some of the top young birders and birdwatchers in Britain and Ireland. The standard of the lea...

Bird photograph of the year

01 July 1996 Comments Main paper BIRD PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YEAR. 1996, its nineteenth year, and for the second year in succession, this competition was again sponsored by Canon (UK) Ltd. It is remarkable that, year after year, we continue to see the same photographers reaching the short-...

Young ornithologists of the year

01 December 1995 Comments Main paper Having thoroughly enjoyed examining the high-quality entries during last year's judging session, the six judges assembled again at 'Fountains' with keen anticipation. We were not disappointed. The competition aims to encourage a serious study of ornith...

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulÃ¤r winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper LEACH, HITHERTO in this series of articles we have thought it best to collect together all records of ringed birds, which have moved either from this country to abroad or from abroad to this country. This has meant a certain amount of duplication as the ...

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad

01 September 1934 Comments Main paper Only in the last few years have we obtained records to show the origin of our winter immigrant Rooks, but the information is now gradually accumulating. So far we have no ringing record of a British-bred Rook migrating oversea.*For previous parts see Vol....

Obituary: Ernst Johann Otto Hartert. 1859-1933

01 January 1934 Comments Obituaries I T was with deep regret that we briefly announced in our last number the death of Dr. Hartert in Berlin. This took place on the n t h (not the ioth as stated) of November, 1933, after an illness of less than three days. Ernst Johann Otto Hartert, to giv...

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