Reviews

01 April 1984
Comments Reviews National Geographic Society Field Guide to the Birds of North America. National Geographic Society, Washington, 1983. 464 pages; 220 colour plates. Paperback, £7.95. A few weeks ago, I had the privilege and pleasure of attending a rather special ...
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Recent Reports

01 April 1984
Comments News and comment We are sorry to report that Rob Hume, co-author of this feature for over four years, since October 1979, has decided that his job as editor of the YOC magazine Bird Life involves him in quite sufficient deadlines without adding those associated with th...
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News and comment

01 April 1984
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Hume's Tawny Owl nest The latest issue of Torgos (3: 2 (7)), the journal of the Israel Raptor Information Centre, includes a short paper by Aziz Subah giving the f...
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Requests

01 April 1984
Comments Editorials Berlengas Islands Have you ever been birdwatching on the Berlengas Islands, Portugal? If so, details of observations of breeding seabirds there in the past (especially old photographs of the breeding sites, including the Guillemot ledges), and any popu...
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Announcements

01 April 1984
Comments Editorials David & Charles books. As announced last month (page 125), we have made special arrangements with the publishers David & Charles for the National Geographic Society Field Guide to the Birds of North America to be sold through British ...
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Letters

01 April 1984
Comments Letters Another armchair-tick for a lucky few? The Ornithological Society of New Zealand (1980) has already assigned full species status to the two forms of Lesser Golden Plover Pluvialis (d.) dominica and P. (d.) fulva, based primarily on moult sche...
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Notes

01 April 1984
Comments Notes Feeding behaviour of Storm Petrels. On a number of occasions during the period 26th July to 8th August 1980, we observed Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus feeding 50-200 m off the point of Blananarragaun, Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork; on most days ther...
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Product Reports

01 April 1984
Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditio...
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Mystery Photographs

01 April 1984
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery photograph (plate 37, repeated here) should have proved to be a real teaser lor the majority of readers. Since size, at sea, is always difficult to judge, it is useful to have an albatross so nicely positioned in the background. Ou...
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