Reviews

13 March 2014
Comments Reviews The Status of Birds in Britain and Ireland. Prepared by the British Ornithologists' Union. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1971. 333 pages; 69 line-drawings. £3.00. A Species List of British and Irish Birds. Edited by Robert Hudson. B.T.O...
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Notes

01 October 1996
Comments Notes On 21st June 1992, along the Basingstoke Canal, Hampshire, I came across a family of Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis. While watching the adults feeding their four young, I noticed a Pike Esox lucius about 30 cm long approach through the clear wate...
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Notes

01 November 1993
Comments Notes Prolonged song of Collared Dove. At Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, the 'coocoo-cuk' song of the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto is normally repeated in a series of up to five or seven phrases. I have noted it with up to 15 phrases. On 8th July 1993,1 coun...
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Reviews

01 February 1986
Comments Reviews Gulls and Plovers: the ecology and behaviour of mixed-species feeding groups. By C. J. Barnard and D. B. A. Thompson. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 302 pages; 14 black-and-white plates; 10 line-drawings. £25.00.This book--the first of Croom Helm's project...
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'BB' goes independent

01 August 1980
Comments Editorials Since its inception, British Birds has been run by a commercial publishingfirm: first by H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd and, since 1st April 1973, by Macmillan Journals Ltd. Now, as from 1st August 1980, the journal is completely independent and will...
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Reviews

01 November 1979
Comments Reviews First Aid and Care of Wild Birds. Edited by J. E. Cooper and J. T. Eley. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1979. 288 pages; 23 black-andwhite photographs; 46 figures. £9.50.   There has long been a need for a book such as this. The ...
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Letters

01 March 1979
Comments Letters Field identification of Snowy Egret. When discussing the problem of distinguishing the Snowy Egret Egretta thula from the Little Egret E. garzetta in the field, Stanley Cramp (Brit. Birds 70: 206-214) and I. J . Ferguson-Lees (in...
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Letters

01 August 1977
Comments Letters Melanistic Grey Heron Bryan L. Sage (in litt.) has confirmed that, when making his recent comment (Brit. Birds 70: 76), he had overlooked my record of a melanistic Grey Heron Ardea cinerea at Little Tring Reservoir, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 29th S...
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Reviews

01 March 1977
Comments Reviews Bird Hazards to Aircraft. By Hans Blokpoel. Clarke Irwin, Toronto, 1976. xiv -f- 236 pages. £6.65 hardback; £4.20 paperback. This is a clear, concise, comprehensive, conventional child's guide to how a bird can cause the greatest possible emb...
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