Understanding sonograms

01 July 2000
Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Although sonograms are being used more and more to portray bird sounds, many people find them hard to understand. Once understood, however, they can be useful to the amateur as well as to the professional, so long as one does not try to read t...
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A new era for British Birds

01 July 2000
Comments Main paper We apologise to our readers for the late arrival of the June issue, and, we trust, for the rather-less-late arrival of this copy. We hope to be back on course by the September issue. There have been major changes, in particular in ownership, while from...
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Recent BBRC decisions

01 July 2000
Comments News and comment 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 sp...
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Conservation research news

01 July 2000
Comments News and comment The islands of North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist in the Outer Hebrides support internationally important numbers of breeding waders, principally Great Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula, Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus, Oystercatcher Haematopus o...
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Letters

01 July 2000
Comments Letters A look back one hundred years in British Birds (93: 84; February 2000) to the Zoologist (4: 82; February 1900) unearthed a Redbilled Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax which had been shot near Hendon, Middlesex, in the summer of 1899 (Glegg 1930, 1935). Pu...
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Notes

01 July 2000
Comments Notes Valencia, and part of its municipality (73 km2), is a flat landscape in which, along with the built-up area (about 800,000 inhabitants), there are other habitats, mostly horticultural fields. In the last ten years, a total of 16 exotic bird species has...
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Bird Illustratorof the Year 2000

01 July 2000
Comments Main paper Judging does not come easily to me: the fact that I paint pictures myself does not seem adequate grounds for passing judgment on the work of others. Together with all my fellow judges, I do at least feel able to pass an opinion; and that is what we all...
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