Reviews

01 February 1983
Comments Reviews Bird Migration in Africa: movements between six continents. By Kai Curry-Lindahl. Academic Press, 1981. 2 vols, lxxxix + 695 pages; many text maps; 32 monochrome plates. Vol. 1, £41.40; vol. 2, £20.60. A price which is unusually high, coupled with th...
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Recent reports

01 February 1983
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates refer to November unless stated otherwise. During the first week, high pressure nearby on the Continent blocked the passage of Atlantic depressions, with resultant warm southerly ...
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News and comment

01 February 1983
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Cape Clear news. It is good news for Irish ornithology that Tim Collins, who has had a very successful spell as Warden at Cape Clear Bird Observatory in autumn 198...
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Announcements

01 February 1983
Comments Editorials Irish Rare Breeding Birds Panel At a meeting held in Dublin on 27th November 1982, an Irish Rare Breeding Birds Panel was formed, to collect all records of rare breeding birds in the Republic of Ireland. Those attending this meeting were Dr David Cabot...
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Letters

01 February 1983
Comments Letters Sabine's Gulls in Britain in winter. Recent issues of British Birds have included two references to Sabine's Gulls Larus sabini being recorded in Britain during the winter, from December to March. The first, in 'Recent reports' (Brit. Birds 74: 237), r...
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Notes

01 February 1983
Comments Notes Unusual feeding action of Great White Egret. On 8th August 1979, at Messingham sand quarries, south Humberside, D. Suddaby and I were watching a Great White Egret Egretta alba when it began to feed in a manner not mentioned in BWP. Standing knee-deep i...
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Mystery photographs

01 February 1983
Comments Main paper A warbler scuttles through the reed fringe and stops, partly obscured by reed stems. Some pretty quick assimilation of field characters is called for before it dives back into the depths. Those who have studied the different structure and facial patter...
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Seventy -five years ago

01 February 1983
Comments Other "In the past month we have been confronted at every turn by wonderful stories of a pair of luminous Owls, which apparently possess the power of emitting a light sufficiently brilliant to be mistaken for the light of a bicycle lamp! Sir Digby ...
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