Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 July 1984
Comments Other 'We are very glad to be able to state that the scheme for marking birds with aluminium rings, outlined in our last number, has been well taken up, and we take this opportunity of thanking those of our readers who are helping by putting on the rings and...
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Mystery Photographs

01 July 1984
Comments Editorials What we have in plate 89 (and repeated here) is a robust lark, standing on a rock, with the breeze creating a 'black hole' in its breast and perhaps exaggerating its crest. From the relative size of its bill and its legs, it is not a small bird, and th...
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Product Reports

01 July 1984
Comments Editorials Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...
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Notes

01 July 1984
Comments Notes Black-necked Grebe jump-diving. Without being claimed as an absolutely diagnostic identification feature, it is generally assumed in the literature that the Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis does not usually leap out of the water when diving. BWP...
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Identification of Stints and Peeps

01 July 1984
Comments Main paper The precision and supreme artistry of Lars Jonsson's stint paintings (plates 113 to 120) fully match the complexities of the subject. They bear the closest inspection, and provide a further major advance in stint identification, building especially on ...
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Reviews

01 July 1984
Comments Reviews Perspectives in Ornithology: essays presented for the centennial of the American Ornithologists' Union. Edited by Alan H. Brush and George A. Clark Jr. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983. viii + 560 pages. £20.00.The AOU celebrated its 100th ...
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Photospot. 4. Lesser Golden Plover

01 July 1984
Comments Main paper Both photographs show how long-legged, long-winged and long-billed Lesser Golden Plovers Pluvialis dominica are compared with our Golden Plover P. apricaria. The Nearctic photograph (plate 130) shows the typical juvenile which we have come to expect in...
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Recent Reports

01 July 1984
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to April unless  stated otherwise. Dry anticyclonic weather predominated with cool northerlies keeping temperatures below normal from 1st...
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