Sixteenth Annual General Meeting - a date for your diary 
Next year's AGM will be held on Saturday 9 July in London. Further 
details will appear in Bulletin 32. 
Request for information : Birds of the Serengeti 
The birds of the Serengeti National Park Tanzania, BOU Checklist No. 5 
by Dieter Schmidl will soon be out of print and the author is revising the 
data for a new printing. Please send Serengeti records to Dieter Schmidl, 
Max-Planck-Institut, D-82319 Seewiesen, Post Starnberg, FRG Any 
records will be gratefully received and acknowledged. 
News and Information 
Birds of the Western Palearctic - a 
note of gratitude to contributors. 
Preparation of the 8th and last volume 
of the Handbook (or BWP as it is more 
affectionately known) is now complete, 
and publication is scheduled for 1994. 
The Editors would like to express their 
deep appreciation for the help and 
support generously given over many 
years by ornithologists and 
birdwatchers not only throughout 
Europe, but also in Russia (including 
beyond the Urals) and other republics 
of the former USSR, many countries in 
the Middle East, Africa, India and 
Pakistan, Japan, Australia, New 
Zealand, and North America . Bringing 
this great project to fruition has been an 
immense privilege and pleasure, but 
we could not have done it without 
your help. Thank you very much. 
BWP Editors 
21st World Conference of the 
International Council for Bird 
Preservation 
'Global Partnership for Bird 
Conservation' will be held in 
Rosenheim, Germany from 12-18 
August 1994. For further details and 
registration forms, please contact the 
local organisers: Bayer. Akademie fur 
Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege 
(ANL), ICBP World Conference, 
Postfachl261,D-8229Laufen/Salzach, 
Germany (tel: +49 8682 7097, fax: +49 
8682 1560) 
The Whitley Award for Animal 
Conservation 
This new, annual award, established 
by the Whitley Animal Protection Trust 
and the Royal Geographical Society, is 
aimed at supporting multi-discipi nary 
teams whose projects make a practical, 
lasting and substantial contribution to 
the protection and conservation of 
animals in their habitat. 
Applications are open to British 
conservationists working in Britain or 
overseas. With a value of up to £15,000, 
the award is intended to cover the major 
costs of a project, enabling it to proceed 
without waiting to secure additional 
funding. For more information, contact 
The Whitley Award, Royal 
Geographical Society, 1 Kensington 
Gore, London SW7 2AR (tel: 071 589 
5466) 
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