Reviews

01 May 1980
Comments Reviews Guide to Living Birds. By J. E. Webb, J. A. Wallwork and J. H. Elgood. Macmillan Press, London, 1979. 291 pages; many figures and maps. £4.95.  This is claimed to be a reference work for the university undergraduate studying birds, and to...
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Recent reports

01 May 1980
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report refers to February and unless otherwise stated all dates refer to that month, The westerly airflow during the first half of the month brought mainly mild conditions asAtlantic d...
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News and comment

01 May 1980
Comments News and comment Bird-killing in the Mediterranean This is the title of a report which gives the first comprehensive overview of the killing of migratory birds in the Mediterranean; for each country, except Libya and Albania, information on the number and speci...
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Requests

01 May 1980
Comments Editorials Glaucous Gulls in winter 1979/80 Unusual numbers of Glaucous Gulls Larus hyperboreus have been reported, especially in the Midlands and southwest England, during winter 1979/80. To document and discuss this influx in a short paper in Briti...
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Announcements

01 May 1980
Comments Editorials Society of Wildlife Artists' exhibition The dates of this annual event have been changed from those given in 'Diary dates' (Brit. Birds 72: 598599); the new dates are 29th July to 11th August 1980. New member for Rarities Committee The votes of...
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Letters

01 May 1980
Comments Letters Judging the size of birds The frequency with which observers claim to have made an accurate assessment of a bird's size, in situations where it is impossible to judge distance, or where there are no other species close by for comparison, lead...
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Notes

01 May 1980
Comments Notes Bulwer's Petrel in Co. Cork On 3rd August 1975, during an evening seawatch in light mist from Blananarragaun, Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I and several other observers, including I. Burrows, P. Campbell and S. Yeo, noticed an unfamiliar seabir...
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Fifty years ago

01 May 1980
Comments Other 'SIGHT RECORDS. TO the Editors of BRITISH BIRDS. SIRS,—For some time now it has occurred to me that the admission of doubtful sight records is not going to serve the science of ornithology very soundly, 'On looking through the last four volumes of Br...
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