Reviews

01 November 2008
Comments Reviews PETRELS NIGHT AND DAY By Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach. The Sound Approach, Poole, Dorset, 2008. 300 pages, 17 full-page colour plates; many colour photographs; and sonograms of most of the 127 sound recordings presented on two ...
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Letter

01 November 2008
Comments Letters The excellent and informative paper by Heaney et al. (2008) stated that `The [Isles of Scilly] Puffin Fratercula arctica population is of great regional importance and, along with colonies in the Channel Islands and Co. Kerry, marks the southwestern li...
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Conservation research news

01 November 2008
Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra in recent decades, estimated at 86% between 1967 and 2005, has been among the most dramatic of any species in the UK. A similar pattern of decline, including range contraction and local extinct...
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Mystery photographs

01 September 1994
Comments Main paper A quick glance at the bill of this month's mystery bird (plate 116, on page 442) should have quickly narrowed down the options to a finch (Fringillidae), bunting (Emberizidae) or sparrow (Passeridae). A closer look at the bill reveals a distinct 'S' sh...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1994
Comments Other The two birds shown in plate 94 were named as White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons (37%), Bean Geese A. fabalis (35%), Pink-footed Geese A. brachyrhynchus (14%), Greylag Geese A. anser (8%) and Lesser White-fronted Geese A. erythropus (6%), wi...
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