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Rebirding: rewilding Britain and its birds

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Ospreys: the revival of a global raptor

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Ospreys

01 November 2019 Comments Reviews By Tim Mackrill Bloomsbury, 2019 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series) Sbk, 128pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-1-4729-5603-3; £12.99 It’s always nice to have a choice and for all but the most devoted of Osprey afi...

Woodpeckers

01 November 2019 Comments Reviews By Gerard Gorman Bloomsbury, 2018 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series) Pbk, 128pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-1-4729-5118-2; £9.99 The ‘RSPB Spotlight’ series is shining its bright, if rather narrow, bea...

The Eagle Owl

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Landfill

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Recent reports

01 November 2019 Comments Recent Reports Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Harry Hussey This summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early August to early October 2019. Headlines In this two-month period, three B...

Notes

01 September 1968 Comments Notes Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent.--On ioth September 1967 J.G.H. found a Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla on the WAGBIWildfowl Trust Experimental Gravel Pit Reserve at Sevenoaks, Kent. Identification was made easier because of his previous experience...

The XIV International Ornithological Congress

01 September 1968 Comments Reviews Proceedings of the XIV International Ornithological Congress, Oxford, 24-30 July 1966. Edited by D. W. Snow. Blackwell, Oxford and Edinburgh, 1967. xxiii + 405 pages; 11 black-and-white photos; many text-figures. 72s. 6d. The Proceedings of the Internatio...

Studies of less familiar birds:149. White-winged Black Tern

01 September 1968 Comments Main paper (Plates 53-54) In breeding plumage (plate 54) the White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus is elegant and unmistakeable. The white shoulders, tail and upper tail-coverts, contrasting sharply with the dense black of the rest of the plumage (plate 5 3...

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