Reviews

01 March 1984
Comments Reviews Weather and Bird Behaviour. By Norman Elkins. Illustrated by Crispin Fisher. Poyser, Calton, 1983. 239 pages; 31 black-and-white plates; over 30 line-drawings. £12.60.  The subject matter of the book deals mainly with the effects of the n...
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Reviews

01 May 1975
Comments Reviews Birds of Prey in Europe. By Maarten Bijleveld. Macmillan, London, 1974. 263 pages; two black-and-white plates; five figures. £12.50. The bare bones of this grim tale can be exposed in a few words. In the estimation of Professor Dr. K. H. Voous...
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Notes

01 May 1975
Comments Notes 'Freezing' behaviour of Pheasants on tree branches At 15.00 hours on 19th February 1972, in Hetchell Wood, north-east of Leeds, West Yorkshire, we found an old hawthorn Crataegus monogyna covered with droppings, with more droppings on the ground below, su...
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