Reviews

01 November 2008
Comments Reviews PETRELS NIGHT AND DAY By Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach. The Sound Approach, Poole, Dorset, 2008. 300 pages, 17 full-page colour plates; many colour photographs; and sonograms of most of the 127 sound recordings presented on two ...
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Letter

01 November 2008
Comments Letters The excellent and informative paper by Heaney et al. (2008) stated that `The [Isles of Scilly] Puffin Fratercula arctica population is of great regional importance and, along with colonies in the Channel Islands and Co. Kerry, marks the southwestern li...
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Conservation research news

01 November 2008
Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra in recent decades, estimated at 86% between 1967 and 2005, has been among the most dramatic of any species in the UK. A similar pattern of decline, including range contraction and local extinct...
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The index of heron population

01 March 1950
Comments Main paper The number of heronries on which reports for 1949 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 162, or 16 more than in the previous year. Of these 117 were in England, 9 in Wales, 17 in Scotland and 19 in Ireland. We are indebted to 79 informants of who...
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The Behaviour Of Corn-Crakes

01 March 1950
Comments Main paper MASON DURING the past few years the writer, with the help of friends, has carried out a series of experiments with Corn-Crakes {Crex crex) The experiments consist in calling up Corn-Crakes to a stuffed dummy by imitating the " crake-crake " song with a p...
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