Recent Reports

01 May 1978
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers February; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. The first week stayed fairly mild, but on 8th very cold continental polar air arrived from the eas...
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News and Comment

01 May 1978
Comments News and comment An enormous Atlas Think of some 3 million square miles, habitats as diverse as tropical forest and true desert, with all sorts of stages between; then think about 720 species of birds, many of them rare and some of them almost unknown; and then...
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Announcements

01 May 1978
Comments Editorials 'The "British Birds" List of Birds of the Western Palearctic' Established subscribers received their free copy of this list with either the March or April issue of British Birds. New subscribers should claim their copy by sending their latest a...
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Letters

01 May 1978
Comments Letters Field identification of Black-throated Diver in winter Mystery photograph 14 (Brit. Birds 71: 34) was very interesting and instructive. It illustrated clearly the distinctive white thigh patch of Black-throated Diver Gavia arctica, which I have...
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Reviews

01 May 1978
Comments Reviews The Golden Eagle. By Michael Everett. William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1977. 60 pages; 10 black-and-white photographs. 95p.  This booklet will be ideal for the many visitors to the Scottish Highlands who hope to see a Golden Ea...
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Notes

01 May 1978
Comments Notes Mutual cartwheeling by Sparrowhawks  At 08.25 G M T on 6th J u n e 1976, at Rostherne Mere, Cheshire, I observed a pair of Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus soaring over a wood, the male (identified by his much smaller size) above the female. T...
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Mystery photographs

01 May 1978
Comments Main paper The white face, generally grey-and-white appearance and long neck are all noticeable features, but perhaps the most striking characteristic of the elegant wader in plate 79 (shown reduced here) is its long, very thin and delicate, straight bi...
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Personalities. 14. Nick Riddiford

01 May 1978
Comments Main paper Anyone who has ever stayed at a bird observatory knows that wardens tend to be slightly eccentric. Perhaps this is an occupational disease, or it may be that such places provide fertile ground for the flowering of latent tendencies. In the case of Nick...
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