Recent reports

01 April 1988
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 15th February to 20th March 1988. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii St Ives (Cornwall), 15th-27th February; Filey (North Yorkshire), 10th-14th March. Garganey Anas querquedula Port Meadow (Oxfordshire), from 15th M...
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Monthly reports: December reports

01 April 1988
Comments News and comment Cold anticyclonic weather dominated the first half of the month, but persistent cloud cover kept overnight temperatures above freezing. Winds were light, coming from north to southeasterly directions. From 15th, the temperature rose, and warm, set...
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News and Comment

01 April 1988
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. The Flows give and take. The Scottish Office announced in January 1988 that 40,000 ha of the Flow Country in Caithness and Sutherland should be given over to conif...
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Reviews

01 April 1988
Comments Reviews Highlight the Wild: the art of the Reid Henrys. By Bruce Henry. Palaquin Publishing, Hartley Wintney, 1986. 103 pages; 40 colour plates; 66 black-and-white plates. £20.00. This unusual book by Bruce Henry can be recommended for its richness of il...
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Requests

01 April 1988
Comments Editorials Colour-ringed Dotterels. In 1987, over 300 breeding Dotterels Charadrius morinellus and their chicks were ringed in Scotland. This represents a large pproportion of the breeding population and doubles the previous n u m b e r ever ringed in B...
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Announcements

01 April 1988
Comments Editorials Following a meeting at Blunham, some of our rare men headed east for a spot of birding on a Norfolk heath. One of them, in the light of an earlier discussion while watching Linnets feeding in Tim Sharrock's Garden, was struck by the amazing series of c...
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Notes

01 April 1988
Comments Notes Pied-billed Grebe catching fish attracted by man. I was very interested in Dan Crawley's recent note (Brit. Birds 80: 72-73) describing how a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus caught fish attracted by bread thrown to waterbirds. I had rather a sim...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 1988
Comments Other What was that diving bird (plate 34)? Competitors named it as: Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena Black-necked Grebe P. nigricollis Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo Shag P. aristotelis Scaup Aythya marila Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus (22%) (21%) (16%...
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