Announcement

01 September 1978
Comments Editorials The Ornithological Society of the Middle East At the annual general meeting of the Ornithological Society of Turkey on 27th April 1978, a resolution was passed changing its name to 'The Ornithological Society of the Middle East'. The geogr...
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Letters

01 September 1978
Comments Letters Great Blue and aberrant Grey Herons I was interested to learn of the two observations of melanistic Grey Herons Ardea cinerea (Brit. Birds 70: 76, 345-346), as well as the one seen in the Camargue, France, by Dr J. G. and Dr P. F. Harrison and ...
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Reviews

01 September 1978
Comments Reviews Wildlife Sound Recording. By John B. Fisher. Pelham Books, London, 1977. 173 pages; 16 black-and-white photographs; 17 figures. £5-95 Many would-be sound recordists are discouraged by the thought that the subject is too technical. This book ex...
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Notes

01 September 1978
Comments Notes Bittern apparently feeding at night by artificial light At 23.30 GMT on 23rd January 1976, while walking along a canal at Kingsmead, Ware, Hertfordshire, I noticed something moving under a sodium lamp a little ahead of me. On further investigat...
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