Notes

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...
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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 '...
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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...
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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...
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Announcement

01 August 1978 Comments Editorials YOC cover design competition The competition for members of the Young Ornithologists' Club to design a cover for British Birds was won by Paul Spencer, of Horsham, West Sussex. His design 'Lonely sky' appears on the cover and is reproduced in b...
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Letters

01 August 1978 Comments Letters Gallocanta Lagoon, Spain: an appeal We should like to draw the attention of British ornithologists to Gallocanta Lagoon, a wetland in northeast Spain. This lagoon, the very existence of which is scarcely known outside Spain, has in recent years...
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Reviews

01 August 1978 Comments Reviews Cruickshank's Photographs of Birds of America. By Alan D. Cruickshank. Constable, London, 1978. ix + 182 pages; 177 blackand-white photographs. Paperback, £4.25.  This is primarily a set of very fine black-and-white photographs by the lat...
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Notes

01 August 1978 Comments Notes Storm Petrels chasing albino At 06.00 GMT on 7th August 1977, on Bardsey, Gwynedd, my assistant warden, Trevor Jones, watched four Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus for over 1½ minutes as they flew south close along the west coast. Three were...
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Personalities. 16. S. C. Madge

01 August 1978 Comments Main paper When Steve Madge first saw the light of day at Tor Point, Cornwall, in the winter of 1948, his mother gained what must have been the prototype bundle of joy and British ornithology one of its more colourful characters. His early days were spe...
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