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Reviews

01 May 1976 Comments Reviews Flamingos. Edited by Janet Kear and Nicole Duplaix-Hall. T, & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 246 pages; seven colour plates; 48 black-and-white plates; numerous drawings, maps and diagrams, £8.00. In July 1973 an international gathering ... Read More

Breeding biology of Sanderlings in north-east Greenland

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper In the first detailed account of breeding Sanderlings Calidris alba, Manniche (1910) reported that only females incubated and attended the chicks. Other observers did not always agree, because both males and females were shot at the nest and one or two... Read More

Recent reports

01 November 1955 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the thirty days from n t h September to ioth October, but it brings in some earlier reports received too late for inclusion in the previous one {Brit. B... Read More

Letters

01 November 1955 Comments Letters Colour-marked and leucistic Barnacle Geese Sirs,--I should be most grateful if anyone w h o sees Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) in north-west Scotland, the Hebrides or Ireland during the next two winters would look for individuals wearing North America... Read More