Reviews

01 December 2006
Comments Reviews BIRDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Edited by Anders P. Møller, Wolfgang Fiedler and Peter Berthold. Academic Press, London, 2006. 251 pages; figures, tables. ISBN 0-12-373614-5. Paperback, £28.99. This book contains a series of papers published in 2004 as a vo...
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Conservation research news

01 December 2006
Comments News and comment Over 1,200 bird species in the world are currently threatened with extinction, of which 179 are classified as `Critically Endangered\' � the highest threat category. In the face of these statistics it is difficult to remain optimistic, b...
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News and Comment

01 December 2006
Comments News and comment The temporary ban on importing wild birds into the EU has lasted more than a year, but it's up for review later this month. The ban was imposed in October 2005 to contain the spread of H5N1 `avian flu' following the deaths of infected birds at a quaran...
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Letters

01 January 1957
Comments Letters " ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE AND BIRD F L I G H T " S I R S , -- I n his letter on the above subject (antea, vol. xlviii, p p . 557-559) I. C. T . Nisbet puts forward an ingenious theory of wind-determination by feel. While agreeing that it is possible, I als...
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Reviews

01 January 1957
Comments Reviews By JAMES FISHER (Pelican Books, London, 1955). 3s. 6d. THIS is the third in an excellent series eventually to total four volumes covering all but the rarer blrds on the British Ost. The birds included faere are the rails, game-birds, and larger perching ...
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Notes

01 January 1957
Comments Notes Group-display of Smews.--On 5th February 1956, at Swithland Reservoir, Leicestershire, I watched a form of social display in a group of Smews (Mergus albellus) consisting of three males and two females, for a period of about half an hour, just before dusk...
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