Reviews

01 February 1994 Comments Reviews The Great Tit. By Andrew Gosler, Hamlyn, London, 1993. 128 pages; 24 colour plates; 22 black-and-white line drawings. ISBN 0-600-57950-6. Paperback £9.99. It is difficult to believe that so much information could be contained within so few pages....
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Reviews

01 December 1993 Comments Reviews Great Auk Islands: a field biologist in the Arctic. By Tim Birkhead . Illustrated by David Quinn. T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 1993. 275 pages; 14 colour plates; 91 black-and-white plates; 36 line-drawings. ISBN 0-85661-077-1. £22.00....
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Seasonal reports: Autumn 1992

01 July 1993 Comments News and comment July's weather was cloudy and wet, and rather warm, particularly in the second half, and this continued into the firsl ten days of August Generally, August was unsettled and windy, and very wet: in fact, the wettest over England and Wales since 1956 an...
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Reviews

01 February 1993 Comments Reviews Grouse in Space and Time: the population biology of a managed gamebird. By Peter J. Hudson. Game Conservancy, Fordingbridge, 1992. 63 colour plates; 61 line-drawings. £25.00. Over nine million acres of upland Britain are maintained in a highly ar...
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Seasonal reports Spring 1992

01 December 1992 Comments News and comment A mild and changeable March, with little sunshine, was followed by a rather cloudy April, but with temperatures mostly 1°C above average. Northern Britain again had rainfall on or above par, but it was rather dry in eastern England. In contrast, May w...
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Seasonal reports Winter 1990/91

01 August 1991 Comments News and comment After the wet, stormy end to October 1990, the weather in November quietened down considerably, and the month as a whole was dry and unusually sunny, particularly in the south and west of England. From 9th, fronts from the Atlantic brought rain in slow...
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