Short reviews

01 October 1991
Comments Reviews Les Oiseaux de Provence (An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Provence). By Patrick Bergier, Frank Dhermain, Georges Olioso & Philippe Orsini. (Conservatoire--Etudes des Ecosystemes Provence-Alpes du Sud, Aix en Provence, 1991. 38 pages. Paperbac...
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Reviews

01 October 1991
Comments Reviews Red Data Birds in Britain: action for rare, threatened and important species. Edited by L. A. Batten, C. J. Bibby, P. Clement, G. D. Elliott & R. F. Porter. Illustrated by Ian Willis. T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 1990. 348 pages; 24 black-and-whi...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 October 1991
Comments Other 'A pair of Hoopoes (Upupa e. epops) nested near Taplow in 1916. They were noticed by Mr and Mrs W. R. Dunstan frequently in a rather secluded garden, and towards the end of the third week in May a single young bird was seen accompanying its parents.' (...
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Mystery photographs

01 October 1991
Comments Main paper Our mystery bird (plate 205, repeated here) is obviously a fairly large raptor, flying with wings held up in a shallow V. This posture is highly suggestive of either the true buzzards Buteo or the harriers Circus, both of which are noted for their...
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Recent Reports

01 October 1991
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 16th August to 12th September 1991 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis St John's Point (Co. Down), 20th August; two, Flamborough Head (Humberside), 6th Sep...
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News and Comment

01 October 1991
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. The oldest bird. We hear from a Royal Society press release that Professor Sankar Chatterjee, a palaeontologist working at Texas Tech University in the USA, has di...
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