Notes

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...
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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 '...
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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...
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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...
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Corrections

01 December 1982
Comments Editorials Pages 19 BEHAVIOUR OF BLACK-WINGED STILTS Line 3 of the first paragraph on Intraspecific behaviour: 'Only a metre' should read 'Only a mate'. 26 EUROPEAN NEWS Bonelli's Eagle 'Hieraaetus pennatus' should read 'Hieraaetus fasciatus'.&nbs...
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Reviews

01 December 1982
Comments Reviews The Garden Bird Book. Edited by David Glue. Macmillan, London, in association with the British Trust for Ornithology. 1982. 208 pages; 8 colour plates, numerous black-and-white photographs, and two-colour line drawings. £7.95. The introduction...
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Short reviews

01 December 1982
Comments Reviews Migration Paths through Time and Space. By R. Robin Baker. (Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. Paperback, £5.45) Continuing, on a generally popular level, the author's ideas propounded in The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration (1978: reviewed Br...
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Recent reports

01 December 1982
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates refer to September, unless otherwise stated. For the first eight days of the month, high pressure to the south maintained a westerly flow across most of the country. A sma...
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News and comment

01 December 1982
Comments News and comment The opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' New legislation After long delays, the remaining parts of Part 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1982--those affecting bird protection--came into force on 2...
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