Corrections

01 December 1982
Comments Editorials Pages 19 BEHAVIOUR OF BLACK-WINGED STILTS Line 3 of the first paragraph on Intraspecific behaviour: 'Only a metre' should read 'Only a mate'. 26 EUROPEAN NEWS Bonelli's Eagle 'Hieraaetus pennatus' should read 'Hieraaetus fasciatus'.&nbs...
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Reviews

01 December 1982
Comments Reviews The Garden Bird Book. Edited by David Glue. Macmillan, London, in association with the British Trust for Ornithology. 1982. 208 pages; 8 colour plates, numerous black-and-white photographs, and two-colour line drawings. £7.95. The introduction...
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Short reviews

01 December 1982
Comments Reviews Migration Paths through Time and Space. By R. Robin Baker. (Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. Paperback, £5.45) Continuing, on a generally popular level, the author's ideas propounded in The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration (1978: reviewed Br...
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Recent reports

01 December 1982
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates refer to September, unless otherwise stated. For the first eight days of the month, high pressure to the south maintained a westerly flow across most of the country. A sma...
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News and comment

01 December 1982
Comments News and comment The opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' New legislation After long delays, the remaining parts of Part 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1982--those affecting bird protection--came into force on 2...
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Diary dates

01 December 1982
Comments Editorials This list covers events taking place during January to December 1983. We welcome submission of details for possible inclusion in the next list, coveringjuly 1983 to June 1984.   7th-9th January BTO RINGING AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. Ha...
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Request

01 December 1982
Comments Editorials Sterling rather than dollar payments by US subscribers Payment is made in pounds sterling by subscribers from everywhere in the world except the USA. Most American subscribers pay in US dollars, but some do pay in ££ and we greatly welcome th...
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Announcements

01 December 1982
Comments Editorials 'Birds New to Britain and Ireland' To obtain your copy at the reduced price of £11.50 (instead of £12.60), order now. After publication, this book will not be available through British BirdShop. This book contains the 83 origin...
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Mystery photographs

01 March 1977
Comments Main paper The set of the body, the length of the folded wings and tail, the small head and the clear supercilium may at first suggest that this wader (plate 11 on page 73) is a sandpiper of the genus Tringa. The back pattern, however, and also the size and shape...
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Personalities. 3. Richard Porter

01 March 1977
Comments Main paper ! first met Richard Porter at Dungeness in 1958, on a Junior Bird Recorders' Club ringing course. He was small, very enthusiastic and had a crewcut. The crewcut went, but he is still small and even more enthusiastic. Richard was born in London in 1943,...
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