News and Comment

01 November 2003
Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...
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Reviews

01 November 2003
Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...
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Letters

01 April 1945
Comments Letters SIRS,'--With reference t o Mr. Howard Bentham's record of a pair of SongThrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) rearing two broods in t h e same nest (antea, p. 157), it may be of interest t o report t h a t , in 1944, in my garden in Mawganin-Pydar, I obtained m...
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Reviews

01 April 1945
Comments Reviews Report on the Birds of Nottinghamshire, 1943. Compiled for the Nottingham Natural Science Field Club and the Trent Valley Bird Watchers by J. Staton. W E are very glad t o welcome an independent report on Nottinghamshire which bears testimony to t h e go...
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Notes

01 April 1945
Comments Notes SINCE I find no reference to the courtship-feeding of the female Linnet (Carduelis c. cannabina) by the male in the Handbook of British Birds, perhaps the following m a y be of interest. On April 24th, 1944, a number of Linnets were feeding on weed seeds...
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Feeding of Blue Tit Nestlings

01 April 1945
Comments Main paper T H E occupation last year (1944) of a special nesting box by a pair of Blue Tits {Varus ccsruleus obscurus) enabled me to observe at very close quarters the feeding of the nestlings. This I was anxious to do in order to find, if possible, what method or ...
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