Correction

01 March 2003
Comments Editorials The figures for the number of European Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus breeding in the UK, published in the annual report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel for 2000 (Ogilvie et al. 2002), considerably under-reported the number of pairs, especial...
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Notes

01 March 2002
Comments Notes Is there a dark morph of the North African race of Long-legged Buzzard? Dificulties in determining the age of Arctic Terns in the field Sparrowhawk extracting Gret Tit from feeding cage Hunting method of Merlins in the breeding ...
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If the caption fits . . .

01 May 1990
Comments Editorials This Black-headed Gull Lams ridibundus (plate 125, opposite) was photographed in Suffolk in November 1977 by Terry Bond, who suggested that the bird is saying: 'You wouldn't believe how many people identify me as a Laughing Gull!' Can you think of an e...
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Letters

01 September 1989
Comments Letters The identification of large terns. The paper on the 'Identification of large terns' (Brit. Birds 80: 257-276) gave the impression (fig. 2) that Royal Tern Sterna maxima has an almost blood-red bill, not especially dissimilar from that of Caspian S. cas...
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