Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Two pairs of Kestrels nesting on one electricity pylon On 15 th April 1971, in an area of reinstated opencast land at Staveley, Derbyshire, loud trilling calls drew my attention to four Kestrels Falco tinnunculus on an electricity pylon. There were two ol...
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Reviews

13 March 2014
Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of Cyprus and Migrants of the Middle East. By David A. Bannerman and W. Mary Bannerman. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1971. 237 pages; 27 colour plates; one fold-out map. £3.00. A Check-list of the Birds of Cyprus. By P. F. Stewa...
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Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

01 June 1994
Comments Reviews Birds of Skokholm. By Michael Betts. Bioline, for the Dyfed Wildlife Trust, Cardiff, 1992. 74 pages; 19 line-drawings; 76 histograms and graphs. ISBN 0-9520432-0-3. Paperback £4.50. This book gives a concise, readable account of data gathered sin...
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Letters

01 April 1993
Comments Letters Tree Swallow records in Britain. Whilst reading the recent report on 'Rare birds in Great Britain' (Brit. Birds 85: 507-554), I was surprised to read, under the 1990 Isles of Scilly record of Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor, the comment that it w...
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Reviews

01 March 1993
Comments Reviews H a n d b o o k o f the Birds o f Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. vol. VI: warblers. By S. Cramp et at. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. 728 pages; 31 colour plates; numerous line-drawings. ISBN...
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Raptor migration at Eilat

01 April 1992
Comments Main paper Raptor migration at Eilat. Hadoram Shirihai and David A. Christie.  Recent work has shown that Eilat in southern Israel is one of the best places in the world for observing migrating Palearctic raptors. This paper describes the huge raptor...
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