Notes

01 June 2007
Comments Notes Slavonian Grebe breeding with Great Crested Grebe Puffin with exceptionally heavy tick infestation Eurasian Sparrowhawk attacking Soprano Pipistrelle bat Reed Warbler apparently using willow-bark pieces in nest construction ...
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Recent Reports

01 February 1979
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers November; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to November. The anticyclonic weather continued through November, producing a mild southerly or westerly airstrea...
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News and Comment

01 February 1979
Comments News and comment National Cage Bird Show The 35th National Exhibition of Cage and Aviary Birds, held from 1st to 3rd December 1978, filled the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace to capacity. This annual show is the largest exhibition of cage birds held in Britain a...
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Requests

01 February 1979
Comments Editorials Leach's Petrels in autumn 1978 Large numbers of Leach's Petrels Oceanodroma leucorrhoa were recorded in Britain, particularly on the Merseyside coast, in autumn 1978. Ali observations in Britain and Ireland during the period 1st September to 30...
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Letters

01 February 1979
Comments Letters The use of flash in bird photography I sympathise with R. A. Hume (Brit. Birds 71 : 422) regarding the indiscriminate use of flash on diurnal birds in instances where the background cannot be properly illuminated and a false nocturnal effect is created...
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Reviews

01 February 1979
Comments Reviews Wild Geese. By M. A. Ogilvie. T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1978, 350 pages; 16 colour plates; 45 black-and-white illustrations; 40 maps; 41 tables. £7.80.  I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in wildfowl, esp...
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Notes

01 February 1979
Comments Notes Opportunistic predation of Manx Shearwaters by fox  On 30th June 1977, while walking along the coastal path near Martins Haven, Dyfed, I came across several groups of black and white feathers. All appeared to have been snapped of...
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