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% m- < t I i o f ?s- ISSN 0007-0335 i Birds British Volume Number 93 7 THh I HISTOiW ' U AUg"20"'' TC'fAjG UBR><^'--V Red Kites England in Bird Illustrator of the Year Sonograms Iberian Chiffchaff British Birds Established 1907, incorporating T/te Zoo/o,g/s7,established 1843 Published by BB 2000 Limited, trading as ‘British Birds’ Registered Office:4 Henrietta Street,Covent (iarden,LondonWC2E 8SI- British Birds Behaviour Notes Panel Managing Editor Drj.T. R. Sharroek Dr C.J. Bibby, Ian Dawson, DrJ.J. M. Flegg, Personal Assistant Frances Bucknell Prof I. Newton FRS, Dr M.A. Ogilvie, Assistant Editor DavidA. Christie DrJ.T. R. Sharroek, Dr K. E. L. Simmons, DrAngelaTurner (Co-ordinator) Editorial Board 1. Carter, Dr R.J. Chandler, Dr M, Collinson, R.J. Prythereh, N.J. Redman, Identification Notes Panel Art Consultants Robert GillDmrorJ.T&. RA.laSnhaHrarroreiks TP.rPo.fInCsokliipnp,BrP.adG.shLaawn,sDdorwRn.,J.S.ChCa.nMdalderg,e,R.A. Hume, Design Mark Corliss 1. S. Robertson, K. E.Vinicombe (Co-ordinator) Photographic Research Robin Chittenden Advertisement Sales Philippa Leegood Annual subscription rates Circulation Manager Vivienne Hunter Libraries and agencies £66.50, $1 16.00 Administration SallyYoung Personal subscriptions UK, Europe,surface mail: £53.50 Rarities Committee Outside Europe,airmail: £85.00 Concessionary rates Chairman Prof, (^olin Bradshaw (National, Regional & (a)unty bird club members) Hon. Secretary Michael Rogers UK - £40.00 J. Paul Harvey,John McLoughlin,John Martin, Europe & Outside Europe, surface mail: £44.00 Doug Page, Adam Rowlands, Ken Shaw, Young Ornithologist’s rate £26.75 (YOC UK only) DrJimmy Steele, Andy Stoddart, RegThorpe, Please make all cheques payable to British Birtls Ltd. (IrahameWalbridge Single back issues £6.50 Available from British Birds,The Banks, Archivist John Marchant Mountfield, East SussexTN32 5JY Statistician Peter Fraser Please make cheques payable to British Birtls Ltd. Museum consultant Ian Lewington Rarities Issue £10 - available as above. CIRCULATION & PRODUCTION OFFICE www.britishbirds.co.uk The Banks, Mountfield, Nr. Robertsbridge, East Sussex TN32 5JY Tel: 01580 882039 Fax: 01580 882038 BB Bookshop Subscriptions & Circulation c/o Subbuteo Books, Pistyll Farm, Vivienne Hunter Nercw}'s, Mold, Flintshire CH7 4EW E-m;ril: [email protected] Tel:01352 756551 Fax: 01352 756004 Accounts &Administration E-mail: [email protected] SallyYoung E-mail: [email protected] ‘News & comment’ information Design, Production &Advertisement Sales Bob Scott & Wendy Dickson,8Woodlands, Philippa Leegood St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 lUE E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 01480 214904 Fax: 01480 473009 E-mail: [email protected] EDITORIAL OFFICE ‘The Ornithological Year’ bird news Fountains, Park Lane, Blunham, Barry Nightingale & Keith Allsopp, Bedford MK44 3NJ 7 Bloomsbtiry Close,Wobtirn, Bedfordshire Tel/Fax: 01767 640025 MKH 9QS Papers, notes, letters, cntivork,journals, etc. Tel:01525 290314 DrJ.T. R. Sharroek E-mail: [email protected] Rarity descriptions PersonalAssistant M.J. Rogers, 2 (Jiurehtown Cottages, Frances Bueknell I'owednaek, CornwairiR26 3AZ Front-cover photograph: Red Kite Milvus /n/V/v/.v, Rhayader, Mid Wales, September 1999. (Richard brooks) BBWF 2000 LAEINCDESRTUETRLSAHNIRDE SUPPORTING tJt; Sj^TROSS <5ampaig THE^RLbIS seabirds OIMpt H00|(>- , BIRDWATCHING FAtR Anglian Water Birdwatching Centre * ^Epleton Nature Reserve, Rutland Water Friday 18 August to Sunday 20 August 2000 9.30 am - 5.30 pm daily Adult £8 • Children free AllprofitswillbedonatedbyLeicestershireWildlifeSalestoBirdUfeInternational. LeicestershireWildlifeSalesisawhollyownedsubsidiaryofLRWT. TheRSPB,BirdLiteIntemanonal andLRWTareUKregisteredcharities IllustrationbyRobertGillmor. 94/688/99-00 Late space on our autumn tours to... SPAIN, 9-16 Sep Autumn in Andalucia with top raptorexpert Dick Forsman Lake NeusiedI • Camargue & Pyrenees OMAN, 21 Sep-1 Oct PNG & Oz • New Zealand • Brazil Arabian adventurewith man on the spot, Colin Richardson HUNGARY, 4-9 Oct Raptors, geese & more on our annual 'Carnival ofCranes' KENYA, 28 Oct-1 1 Nov /V The cream of Kenya'swildlife reserves, its lodges 8i camps GAMBIA, 17 Nov-1 Dec No finer tour than our 'Quest for the Crocodile Bird' Limpsa NEPAL, 19 Nov-3 Dec Kathmandu, Chitwan & Kosi Tapu. 6th annual visit HOLLAND, 30 Nov-4 Dec Our famous wild goose chase with Arnoud van den Berg COSTA RICA, 18 Dec 2000-2 Jan 2001 Last orders for 'Christmas with the Quetzals' 1,01263 578143 2001 brochure... coming soon! , Mb All this & more! Come & see us at the •Jf^J/St- Rutland Water Bird Fair, marquee 4 .1/05/ major Pax: 01263 579251 Suffield House, Northrepps, Norfolk NR27 OLZ "TcilpieT e-mail: [email protected] for Don't forget to autumn! come and see us GOA £1020 at our stand in from 4-19 November with PaulHolt Marquee 2, Sunbirder is the choice for this Indian Ocean resort. We were one ofthe first companies to run toursthere and Stands 5 & 6 at the Paul's knowledge of the region's birds and where to find them is unrivalled. British EILAT £cS0 from Birdwatching Fair, 29 October-5/12 November with Killian Mullarney A whole host of middle-eastern specialities, plus a Rutland Water, wealth of northern migrants, await you on the shores of the Red Sea. August 18th to 20th. BEIDAIHE 1090 from z. 21 September-7 October with Paul Holt For an autumn full of Siberian migrantsjoin us in this Chinese birding hotspot. For more information All eventsoffera full, professionally-led excursion about British Birds programme. Foran information pack, contactSunbird specifying which eventyou are interested in. Sunbird (BS), P O Box 76, Sandy, Beds, SG19 IDF visit our website at: Telephone: 01767 682969 Fax; 01767 692481 E-mail: [email protected] Web site; vwvw.sunbird.demon.co.uk www.britishbirds.co.uk Yourmoney isfully protected byourownATOLbond. SunbirdisatradingnameofCondcrburyLimited Just published Summer 2000 - RAPTORS AT RISK Proceedings of the 5th World Conference & on Birds of Prey Owls R.D. Chancellor & B.-U. Meyburg (Eds.) 90 original papers, with diagrams, maps, drawings and photographs covering current studies on virtually every aspect of raptor biology, ecology and conservation. X Size 22 15.5cm - 900 pages, cover in colour, £30 post free. WWGBlVHancock House P.O.Box Towcester NN12 7ZW, UK. 52, [email protected] email:

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