Reviews

01 April 1986
Comments Reviews The Birds of Australia: a book of identification. By Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 352 pages; 128 colour plates; many line-drawings. £25.00. Until the publication of this book, visitors to Australia had the choice of two ...
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Recent reports

01 April 1986
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to January unless otherwise stated. After two days of unsettled, mild westerlies at the beginning of the month, cold air arrived from the north, brin...
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News and Comment

01 April 1986
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' . Djibouti II. The Preliminary Report of their second expedition to Djibouti has been prepared by Geoffand Hilary Welch and makes mouthwatering reading—60,897 Ste...
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Announcements

01 April 1986
Comments Editorials EXCLUSIVE OFFER TO 'BB' SUBSCRIBERS. 'Shorebirds: an identification guide to the waders of the world' We should like to remind readers that this book can still be  ordered at the special reduced prepublication price, avail...
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Letters

01 April 1986
Comments Letters Escapes? Some years ago, Derek Goodwin and the late Derrick England published some long comments on the problem for birdwatchers of escaped cage birds (Brit. Birds49: 339-349; 67: 177-197). Since those papers, a new generation of birders has appeared, ...
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Notes

01 April 1986
Comments Notes Juvenile-plumaged Great Crested Grebe in spring. From 27th April to 10th May 1984, a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus present at Llanishen and Lisvane Reservoirs, South Glamorgan, was in juvenile plumage, showing the characteristic black-and-whit...
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Mystery photographs

01 April 1986
Comments Main paper The shape of the wader shown in plate 69 (repeated here), with its moderately long bill and legs, immediately suggests one of the Tringa species. The Calidris waders are more compactly built, and, except for juvenile Sanderling C. alba, lack the spotte...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1986
Comments Other 'Of the Grey Phalarope's love-making the author gives a delightful account, from which we may quote the following:-- "As the male seemed to pay no attention to her alluring movements she flew rapidly up to him--producing as she left the water a peculia...
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