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Migrant Ring Ouzels at a stopover site on the South Downs

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper Ring Ouzels Turdus torquatus from both the British and the Scandinavian populations regularly occur on passage in lowland England, where the species does not breed. Although Durman (1976) analysed the timing of this passage through Britain using bird-o...

Bird Photograph of the Year

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper On 3rd February, the four judges faced a total of 120 colour transparencies submitted by 44 top bird-photographers, knowing that by the end of the day there had to be one winner. A daunting task, but, after six enthralling hours of study, discussion an...

Mystery photographs

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper No prizes for identifying last month's photograph (plate 45, repeated here) as an immature gull. With no other species for comparison, its size is difficult to judge, so we must use plumage and structural characters to narrow the field. The combination...

From the Rarities Committee's files

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper A report of a Black Stork. On previous occasions, this series has featured high-quality rare-bird-rccord submissions. The reader ought not to form the impression that all of the records received by the BBRC are up to that Standard. The description that...

European news

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper This regular six-monthly feature summarises information for the whole of Europe and adjacent parts of the Western Palearctic to complement the records published in the annual reports of the British Birds Rarities Committee and the Rare Breeding Birds P...