Reviews

01 March 1983
Comments Reviews Sounds Natural. Cassette SN792. Wildfowl Trust: Wildfowl Portraits No. 1. With Mike Lubbock and Ken Jackson. Cassette SN817 Blenheim Birdsong in Spring. With Bruce Campbell and Ken Jackson. Sounds Natural, Charlbury, 1981. Cassettes £3.00, slide sets ...
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Recent reports

01 March 1983
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports not authenticated records. All dates refer to December unless stated otherwise, but many late November records are also included. Please remember that reports are required as quickly as possible after the end...
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News and comment

01 March 1983
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'.  Montagu's Harriers. In three years, theLorraine (France) population of Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus has quadrupled: in 1981 a count revealed 1...
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Announcements

01 March 1983
Comments Editorials 'Seabirds: an identification guide' This major new book has been illustrated and written by Peter Harrison. If that name is not yet familiar to you, the reason may be that he has spent most of the past seven years on ships, travelling the world's ocean...
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Letters

01 March 1983
Comments Letters Small Golden Plovers. A. Pym's excellent paper on the identification of Lesser Golden Plovers Pluvialis dominica (Brit. Birds 75: 112-124) mentions the occurrences of 'apparent hybrids' in the USSR and Malta. I strongly suspect that such birds also app...
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Notes

01 March 1983
Comments Notes Red-necked Grebe making nest-building movements in winter. On 22nd November 1979, at Ghouet Bay, Guernsey, I saw a Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena feeding in company with a Red-breasted Merganser Mergus srrator. After ten minutes the two moved 90m ...
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Product reports

01 March 1983
Comments Reviews Optolyth 30 X 75GA prismatic telescope. When it first appeared, the Optolyth 30 X 75GA telescope was greeted with smiles of amused curiosity—the unfamiliar dumpy shape and the green rubber armouring made it look more like a vacuum-flask than ...
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Mystery photographs

01 March 1983
Comments Main paper This bird was, no doubt, instantly identified by most readers. Even a photograph gives the impression, from its bearing and proportions, that this is a rather large wader. Straight bill and long legs (judging from the tibia) rule out several species, a...
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Personalities. 29. W. E. Oddie

01 March 1983
Comments Main paper Two things immediately struck me when I met Bill Oddie. The first was his stature—he's even smaller than Richard Porter—and the second was his extraordinary energy. The occasion was to finalise plans for a trip to India, Bill's first major for...
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