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01 June 1971 Comments Reviews Les Oiseaux du Proche et du Moyen Orient. By F. Hue and R.-D. Etchecopar. N. Boubee et Cie, Paris, 1970. 952 pages; 32 colour and 2 black-and-white plates and 356 line-drawings by Paul Barruel; 429 distribution maps; 2 end-maps. Fr 220.00. The two disting...

Notes

01 June 1971 Comments Notes Black Terns feeding over dry land Recent notes (Brit. Birds, 62: 282; 63: 34; 64: 32-33) have suggested that Black Terns Chlidonias niger feed over non-aquatic habitats more commonly than the published records indicate. This is certainly borne out by obse...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 June 1971 Comments Main paper Identification of birds of prey in flight will always be a problem. The best of us will never be able to feel completely confident about a group of species that shows such diversity of plumage, whose silhouettes vary in different circumstances and for whi...

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

01 June 1971 Comments Editorials British Birds has always prided itself on the encouragement it has given to bird identification. As far back as 1907, the first volume included an article by the Hon. Walter Rothschild on the separation of Willow Tits Paus montanus and Marsh Tits P. palus...

Stonechats in Jersey

01 June 1971 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 September 1958 Comments Notes Little Shearwater in Cheshire.--On ioth May 1958 a living bird was picked up by school-children in a field near Stockport, Cheshire, and eventually came into the hands of one of us (C.G.B.) from Inspector Brooks of the R . S . P . C . A . The bird was not...

Obituary: William Stanley Cowin (1907-1958)

01 September 1958 Comments Obituaries H i s MANY FRIENDS and correspondents throughout the United Kingdom will learn with regret of the sudden death of W . S. (Will) Cowin, of Douglas, Isle of Man, on 29th June 1958, a t the early a g e of fifty. Born in Douglas on 17th August 1907, Will Cowi...

Migrant land-birds in the Western Approaches

01 September 1958 Comments Main paper the last three weeks of October, the first-named author served with the scientific staff of " W e a t h e r Observer", a weather-ship of the Marine Branch, Meteorological Office (Air Ministry), at station " K i l o " in latitude 45Â°N. and longitude i 6...

An Ecological sketch of the Camargue

01 September 1958 Comments Main paper T H E RHONE, creator of the Camargue, is born among glaciers and continues as a mountain torrent in its upper reaches, yet long before it touches the Camargue it becomes merely a large gentlyflowing river. Lyons, 310 kilometres from its mouth, is only 169...

Recent reports and news

01 September 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

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Reviews

Notes

Flight identification of European raptors

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

Stonechats in Jersey

Notes

Obituary: William Stanley Cowin (1907-1958)

Migrant land-birds in the Western Approaches

An Ecological sketch of the Camargue

Recent reports and news

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