Notes

01 December 1989
Comments Notes Distinguishing characters of American/East Asian race of Common Scoter. The Common Scoter Melanitta nigra has an Holarctic distribution, and has been divided into two races on the basis of differences in bill pattern and bill shape. The nominat...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1989
Comments Other The bird in plate 285 was named as: Skylark Alauda arvensis (72%) Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (7%) Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens (6%) Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (5%) Short-toed Lark C. brachydactyla (4%) Woodlark Lullula arb...
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Diary dates

01 December 1989
Comments Editorials 5th-7th January BTO RINGING AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire. Details from Chris Mead, BTO, Beech Grove, Tring, Hertfordshire HP23 5NR 16th January BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' Cl.UB. Jeffery Boswall. Film 'Mov...
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Mystery photographs

01 December 1989
Comments Main paper The group of birds in the photograph are, of course, godwits Limosa. Their general proportions, together with their long, ever-so-slightly upturned, gently tapering bills, distinguish them from other superficially similar waders such as snipes Gal...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 December 1989
Comments Other 'BIRDS MIGRATING NORTHWARDS IN OCTOBER. UNDER the above heading Mr. J. H. Gurney in the November number of British Birds (p. 143), records a large migration of birds taking place over the parishes of Northrepps, Overstrand, and Cromer in Norfolk, on th...
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Short reviews

01 December 1989
Comments Reviews Birds of Prey of the Middle East. By Bertel Bruun and Assas Serhal. Illustrated by Arthur Singer and Sherif Baha. (Holy Land Conservation Fund & the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon. New York & Beirut, 1988. 96 pages. $10.00) Thi...
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Reviews

01 December 1989
Comments Reviews Die Vogel Baden-Wiirttembergs. Band 1: Gefahrdung und Schutz. Band 4: Folienkarten. Edited by Jochen Holzinger. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, 1987. Vol. 1: 1,800 pages; 344 colour photographs; 1,116 black-and-white photographs, figures and maps; 301 t...
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Letters

01 December 1989
Comments Letters Curlew Sandpipers on Irish east coast in autumn 1988. The recent paper on Curlew Sandpipers Calidris ferruginea in autumn 1988 by Kirby et al. {Brit. Birds 82: 399-409) reported very few data from Ireland. Curlew Sandpiper records for Cos. Louth, Meath...
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