Announcements

01 April 1979
Comments Editorials 'Bird Illustrator of the Year* and 'The Richard Richardson Award' The closing date for entries for these competitions is 31st May 1979. Artists are invited to submit four line-drawings: full details were given in the January issue {Brit. Birds ...
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Letters

01 April 1979
Comments Letters Birds dunking food There are many references in the literature to birds washing food; they cover about six families and almost all are for water birds. Although termed 'food washing', the behaviour described may fulfil several functions. During...
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Reviews

01 April 1979
Comments Reviews British Tits. By Christopher Perrins. Collins, London, 1979. 304 pages; 16 black-and-white plates; 93 maps and figures. £6.50.  Tits, Wytham Wood, the Edward Grey Institute and its director Dr Christopher Perrins are inseparably linked. D...
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Fifty Years ago

01 April 1979
Comments Other 'REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928. By E. M . Nicholson.  Editor's note--When Mr Nicholson suggested that British Birds should organise a census of British heronries in England, Wales and, if possible, Scotland, I agr...
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