Reviews

01 December 1983 Comments Reviews Eric Hosking's Waders. By Eric Hosking with W. G. Hale. Pelham Books, London, 1983. 185 pages; over 125 colour plates; 80 black-andwhite plates, £14.95. Although this is unashamedly a vehicle for Eric Hosking's superb photographs (both colour ...
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Letters

01 May 1976 Comments Letters The continuing slaughter of birds of prey in Britain Your recent editorial (Brit. Birds, 68: 481-483) on the World Conference on Birds of Prey, organised by the International Council for Bird Preservation in Vienna in October 1975, stimulates t...
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Reviews

01 December 1975 Comments Reviews Threatened Birds of Europe. Edited by Robert Hudson with introduction by Stanley Cramp. Macmillan, London, 1975. 128 pages; 56 coloured and 3 black-and-white plates; 9 line drawings; 59 maps. £4.95. Profound is my hope that no reviewer will ha...
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Reviews

01 May 1975 Comments Reviews Birds of Prey in Europe. By Maarten Bijleveld. Macmillan, London, 1974. 263 pages; two black-and-white plates; five figures. £12.50. The bare bones of this grim tale can be exposed in a few words. In the estimation of Professor Dr. K. H. Voous...
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Letters

01 September 1974 Comments Letters Melanism in shearwaters and auksSince Bryan L. Sage (Brit. Birds, 65: 527) comments on the supposed rarity of melanism in Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus and indeed the Procellariiformes in general, it may be worth pointing out that a dark sp...
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