Reviews

01 October 1979
Comments Reviews Bedfordshire Bird Atlas. By B. D. Harding. Bedfordshire Natural History Society, Luton, 1979. 144 pages; over 120 maps; 113 line-drawings by Ray Turley. £4.70.  When the BTO and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy launched their atlas survey i...
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Short Reviews

01 October 1979
Comments Reviews Kestrels in the Kitchen: the story of Bob and Pat Ratcliffe. By Meg Elizabeth Atkins. (VV. H. Allen, London, 1979. 184 pages; 17 black-and-white photographs. £4.95.) 'Kestrels, owls, gulls, buzzards, heron, geese, ducks, mynahs and crows livin...
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Recent Reports

01 October 1979
Comments News and comment We are sorry to report that S. C. Madge has decided to discontinue his joint authorship of this feature. We thank Steve for all his work on our behalf since August 1977. His successor is R. A. Hume, who will be joining Keith Allsopp as regular compiler...
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News and Comment

01 October 1979
Comments News and comment Eddie Watkinson We were sorry to learn from Pat Watkinson that Eddie has recently had his right lung removed: he is making good progress after the operation and, hopefully, he will be home in Mallorca by the time this appears in print; our best...
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Summary of spring and summer

01 October 1979
Comments Main paper The study of spring migration by radar has shown that the main movements proceed undetected on the ground, and that it is only the smaller ones taking place under adverse weather conditions which result in coastal 'falls'. A total of about 10 million m...
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Letters

01 October 1979
Comments Letters Plumage of Yellow-browed Warblers wintering in southern England In view of recent interest in the occurrence in Britain of Yellow-browed Warblers Phylloscopus inornatus resembling the race humei (Brit. Birds 71: 464-465; 72: 124-125, 130,485), ...
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Fifty Years ago

01 October 1979
Comments Other 'SPANISH GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER EATING YOUNG BLUE TITMICE. While in the Almoraima cork woods with Major W. M. Congreve on May 9th, 1890 we saw a male Spanish Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dryobates m. hispanus) go to a Spanish Blue Tit's nest in a c...
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Notes

01 October 1979
Comments Notes Underwing-feeding by Night Heron Canopy feeding by the Black Egret Egretta ardesiaca is well known, and recently has been recorded by M. D. England for Black Storks Ciconia nigra in Portugal (Brit. Birds 67: 236237). J. F. Reynolds (Brit. Birds...
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