Reviews

01 June 1984
Comments Reviews Cranes of the World. By Paul A. Johnsgard. Croom Helm, London, 1984. 258 pages; 23 colour plates; 24 black-and-white plates; several linedrawings; range-maps. £25.00. Paul Johnsgard used to be known almost solely as a wildfowl man, with a long li...
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Short Reviews

01 June 1984
Comments Reviews Where to Watch Birds in Southern Africa. By A. Berruti and J. C. Sinclair. (C. Struick Publishers, 1983. £14.00 including p&p from RSA Book Distributors, PO Box 1144, Cape Town 8000, South Africa.) Covering Southern Africa from the Cape to the Cun...
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Recent Reports

01 June 1984
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to March unless stated otherwise. March is usually a frustrating month for birdwatchers, eager to see and hear the returning summer migrants, and thi...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 June 1984
Comments Other 'May I trespass on your space to the extent of a few lines to draw the attention of readers of BRITISH BIRDS to a scheme for marking birds which we have just set afoot? This inquiry into bird migration is to be carried out from the Natural History Depa...
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News and comment

01 June 1984
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. OSME grants. Five years alter its foundation, the Ornithological Society of the Middle East has established a Conservation Research Fund. Grants totalling £500 ha...
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Requests

01 June 1984
Comments Editorials Bustard photographs. The Bustard Group of the International Council for Bird Preservation is preparing a booklet about the bustards of the world, with emphasis on their conservation. Photographs of all species (colour slides) are needed urgently to ill...
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Announcements

01 June 1984
Comments Editorials Reduced price 'Reactolite Rapide' sunglasses. We draw subscribers' attentions to the cut-out coupon on page v. BB readers can obtain these Chance Pilkington sunglasses ( RRP £12.95), together with a well-made crush-proof case, for only £6.9...
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Letters

01 June 1984
Comments Letters Rook shoots. The comments of farmers regarding the attacks of Rooks Corvus frugilegus on growing corn in spring and ripening corn at harvest-time (National Farmers' Union, quoted in 'News and comment', Brit. Birds 75: 339) are very widely exaggerated u...
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Notes

01 June 1984
Comments Notes Unusual feeding behaviour of Shag. The note on feeding behaviour of Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo (Brit. Birds 74: 348) prompts the following. On 5th February 1977, at Bradwell-on-sea, Essex, I watched an immature Shag P. aristotelis working its way a...
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Diary Dates

01 June 1984
Comments Editorials The list covers events taking place during July 1984 to June 1985. We welcome submission of details for possible inclusion in the next list, covering January to December 1985.  3rd July BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. Dr Andrew Richford...
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