Recent reports

01 April 1989
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 11th February to 10th March 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Billingham (Cleveland), to at least 7th March. Little Egret Egretta garzetta ...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 1989
Comments Other As readers will have discovered, the January Sponsored by issue arrived late—the result of a serious machine breakdown at the commercial company which packs and mails the issues of British Birds for us each month. We have, therefore, extended the 'Mo...
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Monthly reports: November 1988

01 April 1989
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records Unless otherwise stated, dates refer to November 1988 Anticyclones nearby, to the east of Britain and Ireland, extended their influence, bringing quiet weather with some southeasterly winds...
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News and Comment

01 April 1989
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Seabirds and sandeels After recent disastrous breeding seasons for some of Shetland's seabirds--owing to the failure of the right size of sandeel at a critical tim...
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Review

01 April 1989
Comments Reviews The Skuas. By Robert W. Furness. Illustrated by John Busby. Poyser, Calton, 1987. 30 black-and-white plates; 35 line-drawings. £18.00. In a more verbose age, this book would have been subtitled 'Being an account mainly of the Great and Arctic Sku...
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Request

01 April 1989
Comments Editorials 'Mystery photographs' texts. Texts have, in the past, been written almost entirely by invitation, by members of the Rarities Committee or other specialist experts. We should now, however, like to widen the range of authorship. The aim is to include an ...
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Announcements

01 April 1989
Comments Editorials Christmas Puzzle: the solution The answers to the puzzles set Sponsored by on page xix in the December 1988 issue were as follows. The twitcher lived in Hampshire, travelling (via Surrey) to see a Stilt Sandpiper at Cliffe (Kent) on 25th August, a Shar...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 April 1989
Comments Other 'IT has long been known that, in the Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) the mandibles cross indifferently on either side in different individuals. Recently, however, for a special purpose, I desired to ascertain whether or not individuals having the ...
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Notes

01 April 1989
Comments Notes Mating behaviour of Cuckoos. At approximately 08.00 GMT on 5th June 1986, on an alpine heath, in the vicinity of Ammarnas, south Swedish Lapland, I heard a 'gowk' call and saw two Cuckoos Cuculus canorus approaching in a wild and noisy pursuit flight f...
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Mystery photographs

01 April 1989
Comments Main paper Would those readers who have been interested, intrigued, infuriated and, we hope, educated by this long-running series please spare a thought for the poor authors who are invited to write the texts accompanying the mystery photographs? For what is...
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