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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The only British wintering grounds for Bean Geese Anser fabalis of the western race fabalis to have been permanently occupied for many years lie in the Yare Valley, east Norfolk. The discovery of some individuals carrying coded ...

World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar...

Mystery photographs

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Letters

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Reviews

01 May 1975 Comments Reviews Birds of Prey in Europe. By Maarten Bijleveld. Macmillan, London, 1974. 263 pages; two black-and-white plates; five figures. £12.50. The bare bones of this grim tale can be exposed in a few words. In the estimation of Professor Dr. K. H. Voous...

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01 May 1975 Comments Notes 'Freezing' behaviour of Pheasants on tree branches At 15.00 hours on 19th February 1972, in Hetchell Wood, north-east of Leeds, West Yorkshire, we found an old hawthorn Crataegus monogyna covered with droppings, with more droppings on the ground below, su...

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

01 May 1975 Comments Main paper This is the sixteenth annual feature on the best contemporary black-and-white bird photographs. Once again we had a record number of prints submitted to us, by 43 photographers, which really is gratifying when one considers that most photographers nowa...

Viewpoint: Migration in the doldrums

01 May 1975 Comments Main paper Ian Wallace is an amateur ornithologist and occasional illustrator whose past tendency to erratic and international vagrancy has been replaced by a regular shuttle up and down the east coast of Britain. He now enjoys the relative solitude of birdwatchi...

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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

World status of the Red Kite

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

Mystery photographs

Notes

Letters

Reviews

Notes

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

Viewpoint: Migration in the doldrums

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