Short Reviews

01 June 1980
Comments Reviews Birds. By Althea. (Life-cycle Books series, Longman, Harlow, 1980. 24 pages; 13 colour illustrations. £1.75.) Suitable for parents to read to their three- to six-year-old children. The Scottish Ospreys: from extinction to survival. By Philip B...
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Recent reports

01 June 1980
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers March and, unless other- early April. The presence of three wintering wise stated, all dates refer to that month. Cranes Grus grus was revealed on 1st at After the mild F...
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News and comment

01 June 1980
Comments News and comment Eddie Watkinson (1915-1980) We were saddened to learn that Eddie died on 19th March 1980, aged 65, after a year-long fight against cancer. He will be remembered with affection and gratitude by many hundreds of birdwatchers from all over Europe and Amer...
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Requests

01 June 1980
Comments Editorials Colour-marked Grey Herons During summer 1980, nestling Grey Herons Ardea cinerea in the Camargue, France, will be marked with spots of coloured dye in up to three positions on the white feathers of the neck, and on the feathers of the leg. Deta...
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Diary dates

01 June 1980
Comments Editorials This list covers events taking place welcome submission of details for covering January to December 1981 5th July BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. Richard Porter on 'Raptor migration in Europe and the Middle East'. Central London. Non-members shou...
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Fifty years ago

01 June 1980
Comments Other 'ROOKS COLLECTING RUBBER OBJECTS. The Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) of Wanstead Park have a strange custom which may not have been brought before the notice of readers of British Birds. For more than twenty years they have been in the habit of collectin...
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Notes

01 June 1980
Comments Notes Flight characteristics of Madeiran Petrel Dr M. P. Harris and Dr K. E. L. Simmons (BWP 1: 174-176) regarded the flight action of the Madeiran Petrel Oceanodroma castro as its best field character: 'intermediate between rapid, rather bounding an...
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European news

01 June 1980
Comments Main paper This is the seventh of these six-monthly reviews of ornithological events in Europe. Records awaiting formal verification by national rarity committees are indicated by an asterisk(*). Unless otherwise stated, all records refer to 1979 and to single in...
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The European atlas: owls

01 June 1980
Comments Main paper Before starting the fieldwork for its continent-wide mapping project in 1985-88, the European Ornithological Atlas Committee is producing provisional breeding bird distribution maps of various species, based on fieldwork for national atlas schemes. Pre...
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