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01 October 1996 Comments Notes On 21st June 1992, along the Basingstoke Canal, Hampshire, I came across a family of Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis. While watching the adults feeding their four young, I noticed a Pike Esox lucius about 30 cm long approach through the clear wate...

Reviews

01 March 1995 Comments Reviews Birds of Iberia By Clive Finlayson & David Tomlinson. Mirador Publications, Fuengirola, 1993. 220 pages; over 150 colour plates; 19 line-drawings. ISBN 84-88127-08-1. £20.00. This colourful book will surely achieve the authors' commendable ho...

The ornithological year 1993

01 October 1994 Comments Main paper This report attempts to summarise the major bird movements and influxes of 1993, as well as rarity highlights. All the rarities noted here have been accepted by either the BBRC or the Irish Rare Birds Committee. Those records still pending are, therefo...

Notes

01 November 1993 Comments Notes Prolonged song of Collared Dove. At Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, the 'coocoo-cuk' song of the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto is normally repeated in a series of up to five or seven phrases. I have noted it with up to 15 phrases. On 8th July 1993,1 coun...

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01 August 1990 Comments Notes Oystercatchers incubating on closely adjacent nests. In early spring 1987, in a quiet corner of Blackpool Airport, Lancashire, soil, sand and chippings were dumped and then levelled. Later, the area became partly covered by vegetation and up to five Oy...

Reviews

01 November 1989 Comments Reviews Important Bird Areas in Europe. By R. F. A. Grimmett and T. A. Jones. Illustrated by N. Arlott. ICBP Technical Publication No. 9. ICBP & IWRB, Cambridge, 1989. 888 pages; 36 line-drawings; 39 maps. Paperback £19.50.The word 'Important' certainly a...

Notes

01 April 1989 Comments Notes Mating behaviour of Cuckoos. At approximately 08.00 GMT on 5th June 1986, on an alpine heath, in the vicinity of Ammarnas, south Swedish Lapland, I heard a 'gowk' call and saw two Cuckoos Cuculus canorus approaching in a wild and noisy pursuit flight f...

Monthly reports: October 1988

01 March 1989 Comments News and comment High pressure over Europe affected the weather for most of the month. For the first five days, the anticyclone covered southern England, with westerly cyclonic weatherfarther north over Scotland. The latter moved south over Britain and Ireland as press...

Product reports

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...

Monthly reports: September 1988

01 January 1989 Comments News and comment The month began with a spell of very unsettled westerly weather. A depression centred off the west coast of Scotland brought strong-to-gale-force northwest-to-westerly winds across Britain and Ireland, especially on 2nd. In the north of Scotland, the w...