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01 April 1993 Comments Letters Tree Swallow records in Britain. Whilst reading the recent report on 'Rare birds in Great Britain' (Brit. Birds 85: 507-554), I was surprised to read, under the 1990 Isles of Scilly record of Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor, the comment that it w...

Reviews

01 October 1992 Comments Reviews The Birds of Oxfordshire. Edited by J. W. Brucker, A. G. Gosler & A. R. Heryet. The Nature Conservation Bureau, Newbury, 1992. 288 pages; 8 colour plates; 150 line-drawings; 92 maps; 57 histograms. £27.95.The species accounts occupy one-third of t...

The Rare Breeding Birds Panel

01 March 1992 Comments Main paper In 1968, the RSPB Council established a subcommittee which it named the Rare Breeding Birds Panel. It was small, but from the outset had both a Nature Conservancy Council and a British Birds presence. Five years later, a report commented 'While many re...

Reviews

01 March 1992 Comments Reviews Atlas des Oiseaux de France en Hiver. By Dosithée Yeatman-Berthelot, assisted by Guy Jarry. Société Ornithologique de France, Paris, 1991. 575 pages; 271 line-drawings; 351 distribution maps. Fr.350.00. The late Laurent Yeatman—a name perh...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 1989

01 September 1991 Comments Main paper This is the seventeenth annual report published by the Panel; the sixteenth report, for 1988, was published last year (Brit. Birds 83: 353- 390). It is, as usual, based on material submitted by county or regional recorders, supplemented by data extract...

Letters

01 June 1991 Comments Letters Keeping warm. In his useful 'Birdcraft' article on clothing for birdwatchers (Brit. Birds 84: 27-30), Dr M. A. Ogilvie could have given one more useful tip of which a surprisingly large number of birdwatchers are apparently unaware. Most farmworkers, e...

Short reviews

01 June 1990 Comments Reviews Caring for your Pet Bird. By Dr R. Dean Axelson. (Revised edn. Sterling Publishing, New York; Cassell, London, 1989. 68 pages. Paperback £5.95) An informative guide to diseases of captive birds, which might help in treatment of injured wild birds. TIM...

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01 January 1990 Comments Reviews Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir. By Seabirds at Sea Team: Stuart Benn, Stuart Murray and Mark L. Tasker. (Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough, 1989. 47 pages. Paperback £5.00). A remarkably comprehensive and concise publication on two of Scotl...

Short reviews

01 December 1989 Comments Reviews Birds of Prey of the Middle East. By Bertel Bruun and Assas Serhal. Illustrated by Arthur Singer and Sherif Baha. (Holy Land Conservation Fund & the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon. New York & Beirut, 1988. 96 pages. $10.00) Thi...