Reviews

01 June 1971
Comments Reviews Les Oiseaux du Proche et du Moyen Orient. By F. Hue and R.-D. Etchecopar. N. Boubee et Cie, Paris, 1970. 952 pages; 32 colour and 2 black-and-white plates and 356 line-drawings by Paul Barruel; 429 distribution maps; 2 end-maps. Fr 220.00. The two disting...
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Notes

01 June 1971
Comments Notes Black Terns feeding over dry land Recent notes (Brit. Birds, 62: 282; 63: 34; 64: 32-33) have suggested that Black Terns Chlidonias niger feed over non-aquatic habitats more commonly than the published records indicate. This is certainly borne out by obse...
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Recent reports

01 January 1965
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is primarily concerned with the more unusual non-passerines from mid-September to the fourth week of November and thus overlaps with that in last October's issue (Brit. Birds, 5...
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News and comment

01 January 1965
Comments News and comment Annual Report of the Nature Conservancy.--The sea around Britain and Ireland is now substantially contaminated by organo-chlorine pesticides. This is revealed in the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Nature Conservancy (H.M.S.O., 13s.), which covers the year...
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Letters

01 January 1965
Comments Letters Redstarts nesting on the ground Sirs,--J, M. Bayldon, in his note on a Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus nesting on the ground {Brit. Birds, 51: 365), suggests that this is an unusual occurrence. However, L. Siivonen (Orn. Fenn., 12: 89-99) n a s aiven rea...
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Reviews

01 January 1965
Comments Reviews Instructions to Young Ornithologists. V, Birds' Nests and Eggs. By C. J. O. Harrison. Museum Press, London, 1964. 130 pages; 17 photographic illustrations; 8 line-drawings and figures. 15s. Many modern bird-watchers' knowledge of breeding biology is rathe...
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Notes

01 January 1965
Comments Notes Methods of distinguishing first-year and adult Shelducks in the field.--The separation of first-year and adult Shelducks Tadorna tadorna in the field has long been very conjectural and there is still a tendency to describe almost any spring or summer floc...
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