Recent reports

01 June 1985 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in the report refer to March unless otherwise stated. Weather and early spring migration. The month began with mild, unsettled westerly weather, becoming progre...
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News and comment

01 June 1985 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Oriental Bird Club. No less than 129 enthusiasts trekked to that infamous Eastern city, Norwich, on 23rd March, for the inaugural meeting of the Oriental Bird Club...
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Announcements

01 June 1985 Comments Editorials 'The Birdwatcher's A-Z' was named as 'The "British Birds" Best Bird Book of the Year' for 1981 (Brit. Birds 74: 411). The review in British Birds (74: 409-410) referred to it as 'a most useful addition to any birdwatcher's library'. Its price then was ...
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Letters

01 June 1985 Comments Letters Bill coloration of treecreepers. The note by Laurel Tucker (Brit. Birds 77: 263-264) questions if the upper mandible coloration could assist in the field separation of the two European treecreepers Certhia. Photographs, in Vara Figlar i Norden (1942) b...
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Reviews

01 December 1979 Comments Reviews The Orbis Encyclopedia of Birds of Britain and Europe. Edited by John Gooders. Rizzoli Editore, Milan, 1971, and Orbis Publishing Ltd, 1978. Five volumes, first and last sent for review; hundreds of colour photographs, illustrations, maps, species acco...
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Recent Reports

01 December 1979 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers September, with several August and early October records; except where otherwise stated, dates refer to September. High pressure regions persisted for most of the month t...
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