Monthly marathon

01 January 2015
Comments Other t would be unfair to penalise those competitors whose postcards have been delayed by the British postal strike, or those who were unable to send their entries at all because of blocked postboxes. We are, therefore, extending the deadline from 15th Septemb...
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News and Comment

01 November 2003
Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...
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Reviews

01 November 2003
Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...
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Announcements

01 November 1988
Comments Editorials Waders If you are interested in the ageing, sexing and identification of waders, a new book, North Atlantic Shorebirds, due to be published in the new year, will include state-of-the-art text together with stunning colour photographs of every relevant plu...
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Letters

01 November 1988
Comments Letters 'Breeding status of the Gad wall in Britain and Ireland' Since the publication of this paper (Brit. Birds 81: 51-66), a number of inaccuracies and sources of additional information have been brought to my attention. Gadwalls Anas strepera did in fact bree...
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Notes

01 November 1988
Comments Notes Grey Heron ingesting junk O n 16th J u n e 1981, at West Sedgemoor, Somerset, I found a juvenile Grey Heron Ardea cinerea; extremely weak a n d almost prostate, it was easily caught. I took it to a nearby farm, where I was told that it had been seen in a ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1988
Comments Other 'THE RED-THROATED DIVER IN ITS BREEDING-HAUNTS. BYE. L. TVRNF.R. HON. MF.M. B.O.U. We can hardly imagine a greater contrast than that which exists between an English hedgerow in early June and the haunt of the Red-throated Diver. In the one: All little bi...
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