Notes

01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...
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Requests

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials For forthcoming papers, colour transparencies or colour prints of the following species are needed: Saker Falco cherrug, Lanner F. biarmicus, Gyr F. rusticolus and Barbary Falcons F. pelegrinoides. Greater Sand Charadrius leschenaultii, Lesser Sand C. ...
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Announcements

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials The key to the first part of the solution to the puzzle on page ix in the December 1996 issue (pictures repeated here) was the phrase 'brainpower initially', as the word BRAINPOWER contains the initial letters, in order, of each species illustrated: Bl...
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Conservation Research News

01 May 1997 Comments News and comment A tenth of the World's 10,000 bird species are threatened with global extinction and 24 of these are found in Europe (about one in 20 of Europe's bird species). Dr Borja Heredia, Laurence Rose and Mary Painter provide action plans for 19 of these, as w...
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Monthly Marathon

01 May 1997 Comments Other The members of the tideline gang (plate 7), photographed by Richard T. Mills in Co. Cork in September 1975, were correcdy identified as Common Redshanks Tringa totanus, Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus, Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus and a Bla...
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Notes

01 May 1997 Comments Notes At 08.21 GMT on 13th October 1989, in the Valle del Palmar (Buenavista), northwestern Tenerife, Canary Islands, I saw a male Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus and a female Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus perched less than 40 cm apart on two adjacen...
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