World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991
Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...
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Notes

01 November 1977
Comments Notes Kestrels hunting long-eared bats On thq evening of 5th August 1975, in calm, hot, sultry weather with good visibility, I watched two Kestrels Falco tinnunculus hunting bats around the cliffs of Middle Head and Kay Nest, Bilsdale Midcable, ...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1977
Comments Main paper The fine bill, distinctive face pattern and rounded crown give the warbler (plate 123, page 456, repeated at reduced size here) the look of a typical Phylloscopus. Without wing-bars or prominent supercilium, it looks rather ordinary, and there is nothi...
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Christmas bookshop

01 November 1977
Comments Main paper Nowadays, scores of books about birds are published annually. Some are excellent, many are good and only a few are bad, but it is not always easy to distinguish those that are genuinely helpful and, in many cases, essential. We have, therefore, ta...
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