Reviews

01 July 1980
Comments Reviews Silent Death. By C.J. Cadbury. RSPB, Sandy, 1980. 27 pages; 1 blackand-white plate. £2.00. Birds of prey are seriously threatened in many parts of the world. In Britain, all have been fully protected for some years; moreover, the agricultural pes...
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Recent reports

01 July 1980
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. This report covers April, plus a few early May records; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to April. Throughout the month, the weather patterns were dominated by anticyclones: ...
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News and comment

01 July 1980
Comments News and comment 'Atlas of Seabirds at Sea' The Nature Conservancy Council and the Seabird Group have launched a project aimed at recording seabirds in the habitat where least is known about them: out at sea. One main aim is to produce an Atlas of Seabirds at S...
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Requests

01 July 1980
Comments Editorials 'BWP, volumes 4-7' With the recent publication of volume 2 of The Birds of the Western Palearctic and work well advanced on volume 3 (covering waders, gulls and terns), we are actively planning volume 4 (auks to woodpeckers) and the final three...
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Announcement

01 July 1980
Comments Editorials 'Frontiers of Bird Identification: a "British Birds" guide to some difficult species' This book will be published on 28th August 1980, price £7.95. All subscribers to British Birds can, however, obtain a copy at the special prepublication pric...
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Fifty years ago

01 July 1980
Comments Other 'NIGHT SOARING OF SWIFTS. Still there remains the question--do the birds come down and roost in the open? The only way to prove conclusively that they do not is to go up in an aeroplane and find them soaring in their aerial "park"--to cruise round the ...
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Letters

01 July 1980
Comments Letters Terns perching on wire I do not think that wire-perching by terns (Brit. Birds 70: 545-546; 72: 343-344) is all that unusual, despite poor documentation in the literature. Indeed, I suspect that the habit is locally quite common, especially on ...
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Notes

01 July 1980
Comments Notes Cormorant perching on electricity cable Various gulls (Laridae) and terns (Sternidae) have been noted perching on wire (Brit. Birds 72: 343-344) following the statement by W. G. Harvey (Brit. Birds 70: 545-546) that he could find no reference t...
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