Letters

01 November 1999
Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...
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Looking back

01 November 1999
Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...
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Recent reports

01 August 1992
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th June to 17th July 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 15th July. Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis 30, Cape Clear I...
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News and comment

01 August 1992
Comments News and comment French disgrace. On behalf of the RSPB, ME took part in a protest in early May against the spring shooting of migrant Turtle Doves Streptopelia turtur in Medoc, France. The protest was led by the Ligue Française pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LP...
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Letters

01 August 1992
Comments Letters Little Grebe apparently imprinted on female Mallard. With reference to the note on a juvenile Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis apparently imprinted on a female Mallard Anas platyrhynchos [Brit. Birds 82: 116), might it not be that the Mallard h...
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Announcements

01 August 1992
Comments Editorials Books in British Bird Shop. The following books have been added to the list this month: Brucker, Gosler & Heryet: The Birds of Oxfordshire. Trodd & Kramer: The Birds of Bedfordshire. For all your book orders, please use the British BirdSho...
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Seventy-five years age

01 August 1992
Comments Other 'SWALLOW NESTING IN A DUG-OUT IN FRANCE. My son, 2nd-Lieut. Eliot Wallis, writes to me that, seeing a Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica) come out of a deserted German dug-out in northeast France, he looked and found a nest ''with four spotted eggs" abou...
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Notes

01 August 1992
Comments Notes 'Water-boiling' display by Whooper and Bewick's Swans. From the mid 1980s, at Welney, Norfolk, we have noticed a regularly occurring display by Whooper Cygnus cygnus and Bewick's Swans C. columbianus feeding in high densities on waste potatoes tipped o...
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European news

01 August 1992
Comments Main paper This thirty-first biannual report includes information from a record 34 countries. We are delighted to be able to draw attention to the addition of Iceland and Moldova to the list of countries represented.New contacts in unrepresented West Palearctic c...
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