Reviews

01 August 1980
Comments Reviews Eleonora's Falcon: adaptations to prey and habitat in a social raptor. By Hartmut Walter. University of Chicago Press, London & Chicago, 1979. 410 pages; 59 figures and 36 black-and-white photographs. £24.50. Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleono...
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Recent Reports

01 August 1980
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records Unless otherwise stated, dates in this report refer to May. Unusually settled, warm, dry weather in early May resulted from an anticyclone centred to the northeast and winds from the east a...
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News and comment

01 August 1980
Comments News and comment Record birdwatch The 'Country Life Record Birdwatch' team carried out their much-publicised attempt on a new one-day record number of species on 10th May 1980. Peter Smith and David Pearson, holders of the old record of 126, were in the team, a...
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Requests

01 August 1980
Comments Editorials Buckinghamshire breeding bird survey During 1980-84, fieldwork for a breeding bird atlas will be carried out on a tetrad (2 X 2 km square) basis in Buckinghamshire under the auspices of the Middle Thames Natural History Society. All birdwatcher...
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