Announcements

01 December 1977
Comments Editorials Reduced subscription rates By using special forms obtainable through their local organisations, members of the following clubs and societies can now or will soon be able to subscribe to British Birds for £6.00 instead of the standard £8.00 pe...
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Letters

01 December 1977
Comments Letters Black-headed Gulls foot-paddling on grassland Joh. J. Frieswijk's letter (Brit. Birds 70: 266), recording frequent observations of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus foot-paddling on grassland in the Netherlands, contrasted with my note drawin...
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Reviews

01 December 1977
Comments Reviews Minsmere. Portrait of a Bird Reserve. By Herbert Axell. Hutchinson, London, 1977. 256 pages; 45 colour and 71 black-and-white photographs; many line-drawings and maps. £7.50 The Minsmere reserve of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds...
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Notes

01 December 1977
Comments Notes Great Crested Grebes breeding on rivers Bruce Campbell and James Ferguson-Lees (1971, A Field Guide to Birds' Nests) stated that Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus occasionally breed on stretches of slow-flowing rivers. In the 1970s, in Bu...
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