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01 June 1971 Comments Reviews Les Oiseaux du Proche et du Moyen Orient. By F. Hue and R.-D. Etchecopar. N. Boubee et Cie, Paris, 1970. 952 pages; 32 colour and 2 black-and-white plates and 356 line-drawings by Paul Barruel; 429 distribution maps; 2 end-maps. Fr 220.00. The two disting...

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01 June 1971 Comments Notes Black Terns feeding over dry land Recent notes (Brit. Birds, 62: 282; 63: 34; 64: 32-33) have suggested that Black Terns Chlidonias niger feed over non-aquatic habitats more commonly than the published records indicate. This is certainly borne out by obse...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 June 1971 Comments Main paper Identification of birds of prey in flight will always be a problem. The best of us will never be able to feel completely confident about a group of species that shows such diversity of plumage, whose silhouettes vary in different circumstances and for whi...

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

01 June 1971 Comments Editorials British Birds has always prided itself on the encouragement it has given to bird identification. As far back as 1907, the first volume included an article by the Hon. Walter Rothschild on the separation of Willow Tits Paus montanus and Marsh Tits P. palus...

Stonechats in Jersey

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01 July 1952 Comments Reviews The Greenshank. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (Collins, 1951). 15s. In The Handbook's account of the Greenshank it was evident t h a t much of our knowledge of the species was due to Mr. Nethersole-Thompson, but it needed the publication of this book to ...

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01 July 1952 Comments Notes Long-tailed Tits' unorthodox nesting arrangements.--On April 21st, 1951, the writers found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos caudatus) in the main fork of an apple tree near Brandon, Suffolk. Such a site' is unusual in East Anglia, and the nest ha...

Reports on the movements of some commoner summer migrants at British Bird observatories in 1951

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper As already mentioned, these reports are confined to the spring migration. The expression " Bird/Days," as used last year, represents the sum of the birds recorded each day, and as individuals may stay for more than one day it does not necessarily represe...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLI. The Black Woodpecker, The White-backed Woodpecker

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper THE WHITE-BACKED WOODPECKER. Photographed by P. O. SWANBERG. (Plates 53-59). W E are indebted to P. O. Swanberg for photographs of the Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) taken in Sweden, and to Jb. v. d. Peppel and J. P. Strijbos for Dutch material. The...

Report from bird observatories, 1951

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper more we are indebted to those in charge of the Bird Observatories for a series of reports on their work. This year we are glad to include reports from Monks' House on the Northumberland coast and from Jersey, where new Observatories have been opened. We ...

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Flight identification of European raptors

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

Stonechats in Jersey

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Notes

Reports on the movements of some commoner summer migrants at British Bird observatories in 1951

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLI. The Black Woodpecker, The White-backed Woodpecker

Report from bird observatories, 1951

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