Mystery photographs

01 November 1992
Comments Main paper Even with it in silhouette, the majority of readers would surely recognise the dagger-like bill, flat crown with crest, fairly elongated wings and shortish tarsi of last month's mystery bird (plate 254, reproduced here in black-and-white) as a ter...
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1992
Comments Other The plummeting raptor (plate 181) was named as: Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus (78%) Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus (8%) Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus (6%), with a few votes each for Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus, Dark Chanting Goshawk Mel...
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ICBP news

01 November 1992
Comments Editorials B a l d I b i s w o r k s h o p This summer, over 50 experts, including representatives from ICBP, attended a workshop to diseuss measures to save the Bald Ibis (kmntkus eremila. Once distributed through central Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, t...
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Requests

01 November 1992
Comments Editorials Status of Wood Duck. Wood Duck Aix sponsa was added to Category D of the British and Irish list in 1971, as it was unclear whether or not feral birds nesting in southern England had established self-sustaining populations. The position was reviewe...
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