Letter

01 September 1982
Comments Letters Mortality of Sparrowhawks and Kestrels The findings of Newton et al. (Brit. Birds 75: 195-204) are similar in most respects to ours (Keymer et al. 1981). We wish to comment, however, on some important differences, especially regarding...
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Notes

01 September 1982
Comments Notes Male Montagu's Harrier with broad white rump patch On 19th June 1978, south of the River Guadalquivir near Lebrija, Spain, D.J. Fisher, S.J. M. Gantlett and I saw a male Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus which was typical in every way of an adu...
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Mystery photographs

01 September 1982
Comments Main paper With really good views there is no problem in separating Bridled Sterna anaethetus and Sooty Terns S. fuscata. Only one other species comes into the reckoning: in view of the recent addition of Aleutian Tern S. aleutica to the western Palearctic list, ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1982
Comments Other 'DARTFORD WARBLER IN CORNWALL.--Dr. Clark says that it was unrecorded after the hard winter of 1886-7 until May, 1889, when one was seen at Hayle. In April, 1904, a nest was found near Penryn, and in 1905 one at Linkinhorne, and another at St. Buryan.'...
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Polygamy by Willow Warblers

01 September 1982
Comments Main paper The Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus is generally considered to be single brooded, though a small proportion of pairs may raise a second brood (Campbell & Ferguson-Lees 1972; Witherby et al. 1938-41). Few if any of these records of 'second bro...
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Short reviews

01 September 1982
Comments Reviews Birds of North Munster. By Phil Brennan and Ewart Jones. (Irish Wildbird Conservancy. £1.70) This 56-page ten-year report covers the counties of Clare, Limerick and Tipperary, together with the northern part of Kerry bordering the Shannon Estuary. It ...
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Recent reports

01 September 1982
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates in the following report refer to June unless otherwise stated. For the first seven days of the month, an anticyclone close-by to the east fed in warm, dry a...
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News and comment

01 September 1982
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' Where have all the Whitethroats gone? It is eight years since a paper was published under that title, suggesting that the catastrophic decline in the population of ...
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