Recent reports

01 November 1988
Comments News and comment Herald Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana Pendeen (Cornwall), 28th September. Leach's Petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa (and also Sabine's Gull Larus sabini and Long-tailed Skua Sterairarius longicaudus) widespread in coastal areas, 6th-11th October. Oriental P...
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Monthly reports: July reports

01 November 1988
Comments News and comment The wettest July for over fifty years was the result of the track of the eastward-moving Atlantic depression being persistently farther south than normal, bringing unsettled cool weather. The winds were predominantly southwesterly in the south of Brita...
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News and Comment

01 November 1988
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this Feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Irish expedition to Northeast Greenland, 1987. We have received a copy of the report of this expedition which spent 78 days (29th May to 13th August) in one of the...
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Review

01 November 1988
Comments Reviews RSPB Conservation Review. Number 1, 1987. Edited by C. James Cadbury and Michael Everett. RSPB, Sandy, 1987. 96 pages; 20 colour plates; 24 black-and-white plates. Paperback £3.00. For some years now, the need for a new regular publication by the...
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Reviews

01 November 1947
Comments Reviews British Game. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. (The New Naturalist series, Collins, London, 1946). Price 16s. This is the first of the New Naturalist series to be concerned primarily with birds. I t is not exclusively so concerned because mammals are also inclu...
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Notes

01 November 1947
Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...
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