Letters

01 November 1999
Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...
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Looking back

01 November 1999
Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...
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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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