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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 September 1999 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers 5th July to 8th August 1999. The text and photographs relate to unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Fetlar (Shetland), 9th July. Great White Egret Egretta alba Elmley R...

Rarities Committee News and Announcements

01 September 1999 Comments News and comment Grahame Walbridge, as the longest serving member of the BBRC, is due to retire on 1st April 2000. Grahame is an outstanding member of BBRC not only because of his well recognised abilities at bird identification but also because of his detailed knowled...

News and Comment

01 September 1999 Comments News and comment Two new members have been appointed to bring the BOU Records Committee's TSC up to its planned increased strength of six members, plus Chairman, Tony Marr. The new members are Dr Martin Collinson (Scotland) and George Sangster (The Netherlands). Martin...

Announcements

01 September 1999 Comments Editorials Essential reading for every birder interested in the ID of rare WP species. Accounts, with identification criteria discussed, of 50 species new to Israel, by Hadoram Shirihai, with photographs and drawings. Many are potential vagrants to Western Europe...

Monthly marathon

01 September 1999 Comments Other I am not suggesting that it has ever happened, but, if a devious editor ever wanted to `unsettle' the running in a closely fought, neck-and-neck `Monthly marathon' battle, he would need only to introduce a judiciously chosen photograph of an immature l...

Letters

01 September 1999 Comments Letters THE KAZAKH `MYSTERY WARBLERS' ONCE AGAIN During a field trip to Kazakhstan in May 1998, T. Dolan, A. Knystautas, A. Lassey, J. M. Pearson, A. Pivovarov, D. I. M. Wallace and I visited the very same `dried wadi on the rolling steppe at Sobhiika', about ...

Reviews

01 September 1999 Comments Reviews By Dick Forsman. T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 1999. 589 pages; over 700 colour photographs. ISBN 0-85661-098-4. Hardback £29.95. One cannot fail to be impressed by the depth of knowledge contained in this book. For more than two decades, Dick Forsma...

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