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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Reviews

01 January 1945
Comments Reviews The Duck Decoys of Essex. By W. E. Glegg. Essex Naturalist, Vol. xxvii, 1943-4, PP- 191-207 and 211-225, MR. W. E . GLEGG in this scholarly paper brings up to date his extensive knowledge of t h e Essex decoys and includes an interesting account of the ar...
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Notes

01 January 1945
Comments Notes reference to Capt. A. C. Fraser's note on this subject (antea, p. 94), I have the following note in my diary for December ioth, 1943 :-- Watched three Bullfinches (one male and two females) They were low down on Snowberry (Symphoricarpus) shrubs and at t...
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