01 November 2019CommentsReviews
By Tim Mackrill
Bloomsbury, 2019 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series)
Sbk, 128pp; many colour photographs
ISBN 978-1-4729-5603-3; £12.99
It’s always nice to have a choice and for all but the most devoted of Osprey afi...
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01 November 2019CommentsReviews
By Gerard Gorman
Bloomsbury, 2018 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series)
Pbk, 128pp; many colour photographs
ISBN 978-1-4729-5118-2; £9.99
The ‘RSPB Spotlight’ series is shining its bright, if rather narrow, bea...
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01 August 2019CommentsEditorials
By Ian Carter
On 1st August 1989, a handful of young Swedish Red Kites Milvus milvus were sitting patiently in their holding pens, tucked away in a secluded valley in the Chiltern Hills in southern England. Later that day they w...
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01 September 1958CommentsNotes
Little Shearwater in Cheshire.--On ioth May 1958 a living bird was picked up by school-children in a field near Stockport, Cheshire, and eventually came into the hands of one of us (C.G.B.) from Inspector Brooks of the R . S . P . C . A . The bird was not...
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01 February 1958CommentsNotes
Leach's Petrels in Shetland.--On 6th August 1957, Leach's Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) were located over the boulderstrewn slopes of The Noup, Foula, Shetland. One was caught and at the same time two others could be heard calling- in flight. One was a...
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01 July 1957CommentsNotes
1956, a female Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) wearing a British Museum ring (941642) was recaptured in the decoy a t Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. She was accompanied by four ducklings, estimated to be four or five days old. This female was marked at Slimbri...
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01 December 1956CommentsLetters
I N T E R P R E T A T I O N O F V A R I A T I O N AMONG T H E YELLOW WAGTAILS S I R S , -- May I ask a little of your space in which to comment on some points in Dr. Mayr's summing-up (antea, pp. 115-119) of our present state of knowledge of the Yellow Wa...
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