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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The only British wintering grounds for Bean Geese Anser fabalis of the western race fabalis to have been permanently occupied for many years lie in the Yare Valley, east Norfolk. The discovery of some individuals carrying coded ...

World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar...

Mystery photographs

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Notes

01 May 1991 Comments Notes ...

Letters

01 May 1991 Comments Letters ...

Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard RichardsonAward'

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper For two of the judges, it was the twelfth meeting to pick the 'Bird Illustrator of die Year' and the occasion was still just as absorbing as the first. We have watched the standard of work rising over the years, although it is hardly surpris...

Obituary: Sir Hugh Elliott, Bt, OBE (1913-1989)

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper Sir Hugh Elliott, Bt, OBE (1913-1989). Once upon a time, back in the 1950s when I was still a discontented medical student frequenting the Bird Room at the British Museum (Natural History), I found a representative collection of birds of the inade...

Identification of Hume's Short-toed Lark

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper In February 1986, a Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris was seen and subsequently caught at Eilat, Israel: the first record for the Western Palearctic. Hume's Short-toed Lark breeds from eastern Iran through Afghanistan, northern Pakis...

Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1990 Comments Other 'CUCKOO' S METHOD OF DEPOSITING EGG. On May 19th, 1915,I visited an old friend of mine in Norfolk. He leads a very secluded life but is a keen observer of natural history and a man whose word one can trust implicitly. There are some ...

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