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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Letter

01 April 1981
Comments Letters Tail shape of Bulwer's Petrel M. R. Alibone commented on the apparent lack of wedge shape to the tail of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii {Brit, Birds 73: 217). In April 1971, I saw several Bulwer's Petrels off the bulge of Africa in the vicin...
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Announcements

01 April 1981
Comments Editorials 'A Notebook of Birds -- 1907-1980' This new book--an anthology of 'Notes' and 'Letters' published in British Birds, chosen and with a linking commentary by Dr Jim Flegg--will be published in July 1981 by Macmillan London. It is f...
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