Monthly marathon

01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Recent reports

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...
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News and comment

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 November 1984 Comments Other 'If I read him correctly, Mr. F. Stubbs (antea, p. 155) seems to think that song is nothing more than the ebullition of superfluous energy. That is to say that it plays as much or as little part in the life of a bird as steam escaping into the air from...
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Reviews

01 November 1984 Comments Reviews The Birds of the Soviet Union: a sound guide [Russian]. By Boris N. Veprintsev. Three 30cm 33.3 rpm long-playing records, nos. C90-18023/ 4, 5/6 & 7/8. 1982. Melodiya, All-Union Studio for Recorded Sound, 32-34 Smolensk Square, Moscow 200, USSR. Ob...
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Recent Reports

01 November 1984 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to August unless otherwise stated. The prolonged settled weather this summer continued throughout August as high-pressure areas remained nearby. The few weath...
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News and comment

01 November 1984 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Pert Pools Project: 10th birthday For the last ten autumns, a shallow pool adjacent to the coast road at Pett Level, East Sussex, has been partly drained to provid...
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