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01 May 1976 Comments Reviews Flamingos. Edited by Janet Kear and Nicole Duplaix-Hall. T, & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 246 pages; seven colour plates; 48 black-and-white plates; numerous drawings, maps and diagrams, £8.00. In July 1973 an international gathering ... Read More

Breeding biology of Sanderlings in north-east Greenland

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper In the first detailed account of breeding Sanderlings Calidris alba, Manniche (1910) reported that only females incubated and attended the chicks. Other observers did not always agree, because both males and females were shot at the nest and one or two... Read More

Recent reports

01 September 1971 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals with June 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. It begins with two remarkable reports of White-billed Divers Gavia adamsii; one in breeding plumage on Uppe... Read More

Notes

01 September 1971 Comments Notes Female Golden Orioles in male plumage In the first part of his current series on 'Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67' (Brit. Birds, 62: 169-189) D r J. T. R. Sharrock was right to point out that first-year male Golden Orioles Oriolus or... Read More