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01 January 1993 Comments Editorials This summary covers the period 13th November 1992 to 3rd January 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Argal Reservoir, Falmouth (Cornwall), from at least 27th November to at least 3r...

'The "British Birds" list of English Names of Western Palearctic Birds'

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Isabelline Wheatear

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Field identification of Long- billed Pipit in the West Palearctic

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Behaviour notes

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Letter

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European News

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The moult migration of Shelducks from Bridgwater Bay

01 April 1966 Comments Main paper (1953) established that Bridgwater Bay in Somerset is used as a moulting ground by Shelducks Tadorna tadorna. However, later studies by Eltringham and Boyd (i960, 1963) showed that only a small proportion of the July concentration of Shelducks remains to ...

Passerine night migrants on Skokholm

01 April 1966 Comments Main paper T H E F I R S T British bird observatory was founded in 1933, when R. M. Lockley made a small Heligoland-type trap in his garden on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Lockley and Russell 1953); a big Heligoland trap was built some two hundred yards from it two year...

Reviews

01 April 1966 Comments Reviews Bird Migration: the Biology and Physics of Orientation Behaviour. By Donald R. Griffin. Science Study Series, N o . 32. Heinemann, London, 1965. x v + 1 8 0 pages; 27 text-figures. 12s. 6d. (paperback 8s. 6d.). The author's interests are clearly better re...

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