Reviews

01 February 1986 Comments Reviews Gulls and Plovers: the ecology and behaviour of mixed-species feeding groups. By C. J. Barnard and D. B. A. Thompson. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 302 pages; 14 black-and-white plates; 10 line-drawings. £25.00.This book--the first of Croom Helm's project...
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Recent reports

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records.0 The dates in this report refer to November 1985 unless otherwise stated. Weather and seabird movements The cold airstream coming from the north at the end of October which introdu...
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News and Comments

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Sweden's woodpeckers and Cormorants Two of Sweden's rarer breeding species, the White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos and the Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo&...
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Recent reports

01 January 1965 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is primarily concerned with the more unusual non-passerines from mid-September to the fourth week of November and thus overlaps with that in last October's issue (Brit. Birds, 5...
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News and comment

01 January 1965 Comments News and comment Annual Report of the Nature Conservancy.--The sea around Britain and Ireland is now substantially contaminated by organo-chlorine pesticides. This is revealed in the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Nature Conservancy (H.M.S.O., 13s.), which covers the year...
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