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01 August 1990 Comments Notes Oystercatchers incubating on closely adjacent nests. In early spring 1987, in a quiet corner of Blackpool Airport, Lancashire, soil, sand and chippings were dumped and then levelled. Later, the area became partly covered by vegetation and up to five Oy...

Mystery photographs

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper Perched conspicuously on a prominent vantage point, this mystery bird shows a fairly substantial bill, relatively long tail and black mask, a combination which quickly shows it to be one of the shrikes Lanius. The blackness of the wings and '...

Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1990 Comments Other 'LAND-RAILS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. I am pleased to report that the Land-Rail (Crex crex) turned up this year in quite average numbers in the district of Cheadle, Staffordshire . . . This very dry season is bringing on a very early hay harvest, and this...

Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The weather during this winter period was milder and wetter than average everywhere, with temperatures 2.5ºC above normal in much of southern and eastern England Unsettled westerly weather in early November changed to warm anticyclonic southeasterlies...

Plumage variation and identification of the 'Yelkouan Shearwater'

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The classification of the European breeding shearwaters related to the Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus, and the identification of the Mediterranean forms yelkouan and mauretanicus, colloquially known as the 'Levantine Shearwater' and the 'Balearic Sh...

Recent reports

01 February 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records October 1974 was the coldest in England since 1917. An anticyclone situated in mid-Atlantic persisted throughout the month, producing a cold airstream from the north with several pe...

News and comment

01 February 1975 Comments News and comment Changing American attitudes to collecting? In 'News and comment' for July 1974 {Brit. Birds, 67: 304-305), I referred at length to disquieting attitudes held in some quarters in North America (especially the USA) towards scientific collecting; ...

The Common Birds Census

01 February 1975 Comments Editorials Thirteen breeding seasons have now passed since the British Trust for Ornithology started its very successful Common Birds Census. The main aim of the scheme has been to keep an annual check on the population levels of our more common birds. The techni...

Request for information

01 February 1975 Comments Editorials Checklist of the birds of The Gambia A comprehensive checklist of the birds of The Gambia is currently being prepared by Jens Kirkeby and Jorn Vestergaard Jensen in co-operation with the Gambian Ornithologists' Society. It is intended that this...

Letters

01 February 1975 Comments Letters Bill colour of juvenile Arctic Terns Graham Bundy {Brit. Birds, 67: 246-247) stated that the bills of juvenile Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea on their breeding grounds in Shetland have definite red or orange at the base, this being at variance ...

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