Mystery photographs

01 March 1977
Comments Main paper The set of the body, the length of the folded wings and tail, the small head and the clear supercilium may at first suggest that this wader (plate 11 on page 73) is a sandpiper of the genus Tringa. The back pattern, however, and also the size and shape...
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Personalities. 3. Richard Porter

01 March 1977
Comments Main paper ! first met Richard Porter at Dungeness in 1958, on a Junior Bird Recorders' Club ringing course. He was small, very enthusiastic and had a crewcut. The crewcut went, but he is still small and even more enthusiastic. Richard was born in London in 1943,...
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King Eider studies

01 March 1977
Comments Main paper The King Eider breeds on tundra, arriving at the nesting grounds as the ice begins to melt. Where its winter range overlaps with that of the Eider, mixed pairing may occur, resulting in occasional hybrids. These studies were made in Canada and Iceland&...
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Recent Reports

01 March 1977
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers December 1976 and the firstpart ofjanuary 1977. Unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to December. The year end's birdwatching was even more of an anticlimax than...
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News and Comment

01 March 1977
Comments News and comment Look it up in the 'Key-Word-Index' Not long ago I was shown three large volumes entitled Key-Word-Index to Wildlife Research. At first sight, they seemed to be crammed füll of small print and looked highly complicated, but, after a closer look...
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Letters

01 March 1977
Comments Letters Interchange between Gannet colonies The paper by M. S. Cullen and R. Pratt (Brit. Birds 69: 88-90) added to the now considerable evidence that relatively massive increases—and sometimes substantial decreases— in the numbers of nest- or site...
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Reviews

01 March 1977
Comments Reviews Bird Hazards to Aircraft. By Hans Blokpoel. Clarke Irwin, Toronto, 1976. xiv -f- 236 pages. £6.65 hardback; £4.20 paperback. This is a clear, concise, comprehensive, conventional child's guide to how a bird can cause the greatest possible emb...
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Notes

01 March 1977
Comments Notes Grey Herons fishing in deep water On 26th March 1972, at Combermere, Cheshire, I observed a Grey Heron Ardea cinerea flying across the deep centre of the mere at a height of 10-15 m when, suddenly, it drew back its wings and gradually began a v...
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