01 November 2019CommentsReviews
By Tim Mackrill
Bloomsbury, 2019 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series)
Sbk, 128pp; many colour photographs
ISBN 978-1-4729-5603-3; £12.99
It’s always nice to have a choice and for all but the most devoted of Osprey afi...
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01 November 2019CommentsReviews
By Gerard Gorman
Bloomsbury, 2018 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series)
Pbk, 128pp; many colour photographs
ISBN 978-1-4729-5118-2; £9.99
The ‘RSPB Spotlight’ series is shining its bright, if rather narrow, bea...
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01 November 2019CommentsRecent Reports
Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Harry Hussey
This summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early August to early October 2019.
Headlines In this two-month period, three B...
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01 January 1950CommentsMain paper
(Plates 1--9). THE following notes on the Great Northern Diver (Colymbus immer) were made chiefly at a nest on the great lake of Thingvallavatn in South-west Iceland during June, 1949. They are supplemented by field notes made during the previous June in ...
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01 January 1950CommentsMain paper
(Fair Isle Bird Observatory) IT IS well-known from the work of Makkink (1942) and Edwards et al. (1948) that in certain situations the Oyster-catcher (Hcematopus ostralegus) adopts a " pseudo-sleeping " attitude. The bird stands on one or both legs, with ...
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01 January 1950CommentsLetters
SIRS,--I have delayed answering the letter on the above subject from Mr. P. H. T. Hartley (British Birds, xli, pp. 254-255) because the data then available only served to justify his remark that " more investigation is needed." I examined the two sets of ...
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