Announcement

01 October 2001
Comments Editorials Thanks to the generosity of well-known artist and staunch BB-supporter Ian Wallace, BB is delighted to offer its subscribers the opportunity to purchase this fantastic DIMW original, featuring European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and No...
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Reviews

01 October 2001
Comments Reviews NIGHTJARS AND THEIR ALLIES By D.T. Holyoak. Illustrated by Martin Woodcock. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. 773 pages; 23 colour plates; maps; line-drawings. ISBN 0-19-854987-3. Hardback, £50.00.  ...
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News and Comment

01 October 2001
Comments News and comment We previously reported that a new journal, The Osprey, would be appearing in 2001 and that this would coincide with the demise of the respective journals of the three ornithological societies of the armed services (Brit. Birds 93: 462).The Navy, or, mo...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 2001
Comments Other The bird flying away from us in Monthly Marathon photo number 179 (plate 199, repeated here as plate 278) shows extremely long wings, and, although the tail is spread, the long outer feathers suggest a deeply forked tail, too. Pratincoles Glareola...
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Notes

01 October 2001
Comments Notes The birds of Regent's Park, Inner London, have recently been described in detail by Green (1999). In the course of that book's preparation, the thought arose of making a historical comparison between our original migrant records, from the 1960s, and th...
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