Monthly marathon

01 November 1996
Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Recent reports

01 November 1996
Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...
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News and comment

01 November 1996
Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996
Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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Reviews

01 April 1984
Comments Reviews National Geographic Society Field Guide to the Birds of North America. National Geographic Society, Washington, 1983. 464 pages; 220 colour plates. Paperback, £7.95. A few weeks ago, I had the privilege and pleasure of attending a rather special ...
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Recent Reports

01 April 1984
Comments News and comment We are sorry to report that Rob Hume, co-author of this feature for over four years, since October 1979, has decided that his job as editor of the YOC magazine Bird Life involves him in quite sufficient deadlines without adding those associated with th...
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News and comment

01 April 1984
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Hume's Tawny Owl nest The latest issue of Torgos (3: 2 (7)), the journal of the Israel Raptor Information Centre, includes a short paper by Aziz Subah giving the f...
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Requests

01 April 1984
Comments Editorials Berlengas Islands Have you ever been birdwatching on the Berlengas Islands, Portugal? If so, details of observations of breeding seabirds there in the past (especially old photographs of the breeding sites, including the Guillemot ledges), and any popu...
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Announcements

01 April 1984
Comments Editorials David & Charles books. As announced last month (page 125), we have made special arrangements with the publishers David & Charles for the National Geographic Society Field Guide to the Birds of North America to be sold through British ...
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