Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters D o some Wallcreepers migrate? Recent letters by David Elias, H. G. Alexander and Guy Mountfort on the movements of the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria referred respectively to observations in Cyprus (Brit. Birds, 63: 393-394) and the Indo-Pakistan subc...
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Reviews

01 October 1983
Comments Reviews The Birds of Africa. Volume I. By Leslie H. Brown, Emil K. Urban and Kenneth Newman. Academic Press, London, 1982. 521 pages; 28 colour plates; 4 black-and-white plates; many line-drawings and maps. £53.40. This is a huge book: just as heavy a...
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Recent reports

01 October 1983
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked - ~ reports, not authenticated records Dates in this report refer to July except where stated otherwise. In contrast to the cool unsettled spring weather, July was one of the hottest on record. A warm anticyclonic ar...
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News and comment

01 October 1983
Comments News and comment White-tailed Eagles breed again After eight years, during which 52 young Whitetailed Eagles Haliaeetus albicilla have been released on Rhum, Inner Hebrides, breeding has at last been attempted. Eggs were laid in two nests, but none hatched: a g...
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Announcements

01 October 1983
Comments Editorials £l,000-prize 'Mystery Photographs Book' This new book, announced in July {Brit. Birds 76: 287), is published by British Birds on 10th October. The photographs are not all of obscure Asiatic rarities—some are of common birds that occur d...
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Letters

01 October 1983
Comments Letters The Northumberland Aleutian Tern I should like to comment on the remarkable record of an Aleutian Tern Sterna aleutica in Northumberland (Dixey et al. 1981). The distinctive polysyllabic call noted is the basis of some Alaskan Eskimo names for ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 October 1983
Comments Other 'GREEN WOODPECKER versus STARLING, BY EMMA L. TURNER, F. L. S. WHILE wandering about soon after dawn on the morning of May 8th, I came across one of the most amusing incidents connected with bird life which I have ever watched. 'A pair of Green Wo...
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Notes

01 October 1983
Comments Notes Prolonged aerial encounters between Hen Harrier and Goshawk On 17th February 1980, I observed a 'ringtail' (female/immature) Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus flying low over a Yorkshire moorland. I watched it for several minutes, after which it was j...
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Mystery photographs

01 October 1983
Comments Main paper As a medium-sized wader feeds in the marsh on a fine spring morning, its delicate movements are halted as it spots the observer. The bird's relatively small head, short tail and medium length, but rather slim, straight bill and longish legs indica...
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