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 April 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The following summary deals with December 1972 and January 1973, with February taken into account in some cases where relevant. The weather during this time was characterised by its extrao...
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News and comment

01 April 1973 Comments News and comment 1973 All-Ireland Conference It is usually encouraging to see an ornithological conference attracting public attention, but this All-Ireland Conference, held at Newcastle, Co. Down, during 2nd-4th March, perhaps went too far in that it started w...
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