Reviews

01 February 1986 Comments Reviews Gulls and Plovers: the ecology and behaviour of mixed-species feeding groups. By C. J. Barnard and D. B. A. Thompson. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 302 pages; 14 black-and-white plates; 10 line-drawings. £25.00.This book--the first of Croom Helm's project...
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Recent reports

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records.0 The dates in this report refer to November 1985 unless otherwise stated. Weather and seabird movements The cold airstream coming from the north at the end of October which introdu...
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News and Comments

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Sweden's woodpeckers and Cormorants Two of Sweden's rarer breeding species, the White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos and the Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo&...
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Personalities. 30. R. A. Hume

01 May 1983 Comments Main paper Rob Hume, expert on gulls and terns, wildlife artist, formerly co-editor of the greatly acclaimed West Midland Bird Club annual report and more recently co-compiler of the British Birds feature 'Recent reports' (largely unchecked!), is well known to bi...
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Territorial behaviour of Kestrels

01 May 1983 Comments Main paper Birds of prey exhibit a wide range of dispersion patterns, determined in part by their response to varying prey availability (Newton 1979). The Kestrel Falco tinnunculus has been recorded nesting colonially (Fennel 1954), or solitarily, with pairs defe...
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