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01 August 1990 Comments Notes Oystercatchers incubating on closely adjacent nests. In early spring 1987, in a quiet corner of Blackpool Airport, Lancashire, soil, sand and chippings were dumped and then levelled. Later, the area became partly covered by vegetation and up to five Oy...

Mystery photographs

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper Perched conspicuously on a prominent vantage point, this mystery bird shows a fairly substantial bill, relatively long tail and black mask, a combination which quickly shows it to be one of the shrikes Lanius. The blackness of the wings and '...

Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1990 Comments Other 'LAND-RAILS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. I am pleased to report that the Land-Rail (Crex crex) turned up this year in quite average numbers in the district of Cheadle, Staffordshire . . . This very dry season is bringing on a very early hay harvest, and this...

Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The weather during this winter period was milder and wetter than average everywhere, with temperatures 2.5ºC above normal in much of southern and eastern England Unsettled westerly weather in early November changed to warm anticyclonic southeasterlies...

Plumage variation and identification of the 'Yelkouan Shearwater'

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The classification of the European breeding shearwaters related to the Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus, and the identification of the Mediterranean forms yelkouan and mauretanicus, colloquially known as the 'Levantine Shearwater' and the 'Balearic Sh...

Reviews

01 February 1981 Comments Reviews The Popular Handbook of Rarer British Birds. Second edition (revised). By P. A. D. Hollom. Witherby, London, 1980. 190 pages; one black-and-white and 55 colour plates; several line-drawings. £12.00. The first edition (published in 1960) ...

Recent reports

01 February 1981 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not fully authenticated records The dates in this report refer to November unless otherwise stated. The weather during the first part of the month was dominated by a high-pressure system. Until Bth, the anticyclone ...

News and comment

01 February 1981 Comments News and comment European wildlife and natural habitats The Netherlands and Liechtenstein have become the first countries to ratify the Council of Europe's Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, which was signed in Berne ...

Requests

01 February 1981 Comments Editorials Rare issues of 'BB' Stocks of the issues for October 1978. October 1979. November 1979 and May 1980 have run out. Anyone who has a copy which is not needed and who returns it to us will be doing BB (and potential purchasers of the complete volu...

Announcements

01 February 1981 Comments Editorials 'Birds New to Britain and Ireland' The post-war accounts of birds new to Britain and Ireland which have been published in British Birds (from the 1946 Moustached Warblers Acrocephalus melanopogon to the present day) are being incorporated in a ...

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