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01 March 2011 Comments Letters Hawk Owl in Wiltshire ...

Mike Madders (1957-2009)

01 March 2010 Comments Obituaries Mike Madders was a professional ornitholo- gist, best known for his work on the likely impact of wind-power development on upland birds in Scotland. He is more popu- larly known for the many books he authored and published. Mike was born in Leicester on ...

The status of Caspian Gull in Malta

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper Although gull-watching on Malta has been carried out by the authors for over 20 years, more systematic observations were under- taken during 2001-09. Sessions are held in most months, with more intensive effort from August to April, but especially during ...

DNA analysis of a juvenile Common Snipe on Corvo, Azores

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper The Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago is a rare breeding bird in the Azores archipelago, where breeding occurs in the moist, elevated plains and moors of the islands of SaÃÆo Miguel, Terceira, SaÃÆo Jorge, Pico, Faial, Flores and Corvo. Recent ...

Identification of Caspian Gull

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper Abstract This paper deals with the identification of the Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans. The aim is to synthesise what is currently known about the identification of this species and discuss the appearance of proven and suspected hybrids. The paper is spli...

Notes

01 March 2010 Comments Interactions between breeding Black Swans and Mute Swans in Cheshire & Wirral ...

Reviews

01 October 1984 Comments Reviews Tunnicliffe's Birds: measured drawings in colour by C. F. Tunnicliffe RA. Gollancz, London, 1984. 160 pages; 79 colour plates. £40.00. If one were to conduct a random survey among wildlife artists and connoisseurs, to find who was deemed 'the gre...

Recent Reports

01 October 1984 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to July unless stated otherwise. Weather The weather during July was dominated by anticyclones. One centred close by to the west at the start of the m...

News and comment

01 October 1984 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. USSR society. We are grateful to Mike Wilson for bringing to our attention the formation earlier this year of a new 'All-Union Ornithological Society', after an in...

Request

01 October 1984 Comments Editorials Photographs of wheatears. For a forthcoming paper on 'Field identification of West Palearctic wheatears' by Peter Clement and Dr Lin Cornwallis, photographs--black-and-white prints, colour transparencies (preferably originals on loan) and colour prints...

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