Recent reports

01 November 1983
Comments News and comment The dates in this report refer to August unless otherwise stated. The hot, dry anticyclonic weather of July continued, albeit slightly cooler in the first two weeks of August as high pressure to the west produced north to northeast winds. Hot south to ...
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News and comment

01 November 1983
Comments News and comment Bodmin Moor Nature Observatory This bold venture has been set up by Tony and Pamela Miller. Situated near Bolventor, in just about the centre of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, the Observatory is in an ideal position lor those who want to study and enjo...
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Notes

01 November 1983
Comments Notes Division of parental care by Mute Swans In May 1978, at Marazion marsh, Cornwall, a pair of Mute Swans Cygnus olor reared three cygnets. In the first four weeks the family remained intact, keeping near the nest site in pools. During this period...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1983
Comments Main paper The mottles on the neck and breast of this gull (plate 196, repeated here as plate 225) indicate that it is of the large, white-headed-insummer group, not the smaller, dark-hooded group which tend to have clearer head markings, but retain an all-white ...
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Sponsorship

01 November 1983
Comments Editorials We are delighted to announce that Zeiss West Germany has agreed to sponsor the Rarities Committee for at least one year, and perhaps for longer; naturally, we hope that this support will become annual. It is very fitting that Zeiss West Germa...
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Reviews

01 November 1983
Comments Reviews The 'British Birds' Mystery Photographs Book. By J. T. R. Sharrock. British Birds. Biggleswade, 1983. 32 pages; over 40 black-and-white photographs. £4.80. The essence of this book is to identify correctly the 43 birds contained within its pag...
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