News and comment

01 October 2008
Comments News and comment Bird-of-prey conservation has faced no fewer than three major setbacks in the past month: Defra has confirmed that a bare minimum of raptor species will require registration for captive-breeding in future; one of the first Red Kites Milvus milvus reint...
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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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