Recent reports

01 January 1989 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 14th November 1988 to 2nd January 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Bewick's Swan Cygnus columbianus Adult of nominate race, Durleigh Reservoir (Somerset), several dates from 27th Novemb...
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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...
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Recent reports: Monthly reports

01 January 1989 Comments Editorials We have been striving constantly to increase the usefulness of this popular, regular feature. With 'Recent reports' now appearing separately, and with the twitchers' grapevine now formalised, making up-to-the-minute news of rarities available to all fo...
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Letters

01 July 1968 Comments Letters The role of sunbathing in birds Sirs,--Sunbathing has been the subject of repeated comment in British Birds (for example, J. Gibb, 40: 172-174; V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 40: 256; N. Rollin, 41: 304-305; and, more recently, C. W. Teager, 60: 361-363 and D. Good...
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Reviews

01 July 1968 Comments Reviews Pigeons and Doves of the World. By Derek Goodwin. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 1967. 446 pages; three colour plates; many maps and line-drawings. £6 6s. In his opening paragraph, Derek Goodwin writes of feral pigeons bri...
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Notes

01 July 1968 Comments Notes Little Grebes choking to death on fish.--On ioth March 1968, at Brompton-on-Swale, near Catterick, Yorkshire, J. V. Anderson discovered a freshly dead bird on the river bank, with a fish jammed in its bill. I visited the spot with him the next day and fou...
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