Mystery photographs

01 November 1985
Comments Main paper Last month's photograph by Richard T. Mills (plate 241, repeated here as 288) is so sharp and evenly lit, and gives such a vivid impression of how the bird must actually have looked, that one is tempted to jump to a rapid conclusion. Other than se...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1985
Comments Other 'ON SOME ISLE OF WIGHT BIRDS. RAVEN (Corvus corax).--We Hampshire naturalists were no little grieved last year to hear that the last pair of Freshwater Ravens were first robbed of their five eggs and then shot. The Royal Society for the Protection of B...
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Books for Christmas

01 November 1985
Comments Editorials There are scores of natural history books around in the shops. All choices must be personal, but we think that these 40 are the pick of the bunch. They are all suitable to buy as a present (or to hint that you would like bought for you!). They are list...
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Recent reports

01 November 1985
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to August unless otherwise stated. The cool unsettled weather experienced this summer continued during August as a series of low-pressure systems tra...
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News and comment

01 November 1985
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' . Birds in Gillingham John Holloway has sent us a copy of his 64-page booklet The Birds of Gillingham. The area dealt with is the Borough of Gillingham, Kent, which...
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Requests

01 November 1985
Comments Editorials Resubscription urgency If your subscription runs from January to December and you want to receive your January 1986 issue in January, please resubscribe NOW (or before the end of November at the latest). The end-of-the-year rush creates a mountain of m...
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Announcements

01 November 1985
Comments Editorials Loose binders: AVAILABLE AGAIN We are delighted to announce that we have arranged for loose-leaf binders to hold a full year's issues of British Birds to be available once more. The new binders are identical in style to those available up to August 198...
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Letters

01 November 1985
Comments Letters Definition of a birdwatcher. Do other British Birds readers also get branded as bird lovers rather than bird watchers by their non-birder friends? If so, we no longer have any problem in explaining this subtlety. We merely point to the beautifully obje...
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