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01 October 1996 Comments Notes On 21st June 1992, along the Basingstoke Canal, Hampshire, I came across a family of Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis. While watching the adults feeding their four young, I noticed a Pike Esox lucius about 30 cm long approach through the clear wate...

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01 November 1993 Comments Notes Prolonged song of Collared Dove. At Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, the 'coocoo-cuk' song of the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto is normally repeated in a series of up to five or seven phrases. I have noted it with up to 15 phrases. On 8th July 1993,1 coun...

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...

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...

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...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 1989

01 September 1991 Comments Main paper This is the seventeenth annual report published by the Panel; the sixteenth report, for 1988, was published last year (Brit. Birds 83: 353- 390). It is, as usual, based on material submitted by county or regional recorders, supplemented by data extract...

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...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 1987

01 October 1989 Comments Main paper ...

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...

Reviews

01 March 1985 Comments Reviews Bird Navigation: the solution of a mystery? By R. Robin Baker. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1984. 256 pages. Paperback, £9.75. This book fills for the birdwatcher of the 1980s the niche which G.V.T. Matthews's pioneer Bird Navigation fil...