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Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

01 March 2006 Comments Editorials Seabirds in the northeast Atlantic usually feed their chicks on small, oil-rich shoaling fish such as sandeels Ammodytes marinus, sprats Sprattus sprattus, herring Clupea harengus and capelin Mallotus villosus. Although many other fish species have bee... Read More

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Juvenile Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus exhibit a striking resemblance to Common Buzzards Buteo buteo, even though the two species are not closely related. Both species, but particularly Honey-buzzards, rather frequently fall prey to Northern ... Read More

Recent Reports and News

01 October 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not he regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp... Read More

Special review The Helsinki Congress and the future

01 October 1960 Comments Reviews Proceedings of the XII International Ornithological Congress (Helsinki, 5th-i2th June 1958). Edited by G. Bergman, K. O. Donner and L. von Haartman. Tilgmannin Kirjapaino, Helsinki, i960. Vol. I, 436 pages; Vol. II, 384 pages; both with diagrams, maps and... Read More