Reviews

01 February 1986 Comments Reviews Gulls and Plovers: the ecology and behaviour of mixed-species feeding groups. By C. J. Barnard and D. B. A. Thompson. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 302 pages; 14 black-and-white plates; 10 line-drawings. £25.00.This book--the first of Croom Helm's project...
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Recent reports

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records.0 The dates in this report refer to November 1985 unless otherwise stated. Weather and seabird movements The cold airstream coming from the north at the end of October which introdu...
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News and Comments

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Sweden's woodpeckers and Cormorants Two of Sweden's rarer breeding species, the White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos and the Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo&...
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Some notes on the Crested Lark

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland. For most of the time two of us were together. In 1946 one of us was for a short time again in Germany. Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristata) were seen wher...
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Letters

01 June 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Royal Naval Bird-Watching Society has now been in existence for just over a year. I t has some t w o hundred and sixty members drawn from the ranks of t h e Royal Navy, Royal Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Navies. These observers range fr...
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