Reviews

01 October 1992
Comments Reviews The Birds of Oxfordshire. Edited by J. W. Brucker, A. G. Gosler & A. R. Heryet. The Nature Conservation Bureau, Newbury, 1992. 288 pages; 8 colour plates; 150 line-drawings; 92 maps; 57 histograms. £27.95.The species accounts occupy one-third of t...
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The Rare Breeding Birds Panel

01 March 1992
Comments Main paper In 1968, the RSPB Council established a subcommittee which it named the Rare Breeding Birds Panel. It was small, but from the outset had both a Nature Conservancy Council and a British Birds presence. Five years later, a report commented 'While many re...
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Reviews

01 March 1992
Comments Reviews Atlas des Oiseaux de France en Hiver. By Dosithée Yeatman-Berthelot, assisted by Guy Jarry. Société Ornithologique de France, Paris, 1991. 575 pages; 271 line-drawings; 351 distribution maps. Fr.350.00. The late Laurent Yeatman—a name perh...
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Short reviews

01 January 1990
Comments Reviews Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir. By Seabirds at Sea Team: Stuart Benn, Stuart Murray and Mark L. Tasker. (Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough, 1989. 47 pages. Paperback £5.00). A remarkably comprehensive and concise publication on two of Scotl...
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Notes

01 April 1988
Comments Notes Pied-billed Grebe catching fish attracted by man. I was very interested in Dan Crawley's recent note (Brit. Birds 80: 72-73) describing how a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus caught fish attracted by bread thrown to waterbirds. I had rather a sim...
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Reviews

01 January 1988
Comments Reviews The Changing Countryside. Edited by John Blunden and Nigel Curry. Christopher Helm, London, 1985. 269 pages; 14 colour plates; 46 black-and-white plates; 18 line-drawings. Paperback, £11.95. The Countryside Handbook. Edited by Alan Rogers, John Blun...
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Notes

01 July 1986
Comments Notes Parent Great Crested Grebe killing own small chick. On 30th June 1984, on a fine sunny morning, I was watching a family of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus at Les Grangettes Nature Reserve on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Each parent carried two chi...
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Notes

01 November 1985
Comments Notes Interspecific aggression between Little Grebe and Dipper. On 19th August 1982, at Loch Beannacharain, Ross & Cromarty, I saw a Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis diving close to the shore of the loch around the mouth of the River Meig, whi...
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