Announcements

01 April 1979
Comments Editorials 'Bird Illustrator of the Year* and 'The Richard Richardson Award' The closing date for entries for these competitions is 31st May 1979. Artists are invited to submit four line-drawings: full details were given in the January issue {Brit. Birds ...
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Letters

01 April 1979
Comments Letters Birds dunking food There are many references in the literature to birds washing food; they cover about six families and almost all are for water birds. Although termed 'food washing', the behaviour described may fulfil several functions. During...
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Reviews

01 April 1979
Comments Reviews British Tits. By Christopher Perrins. Collins, London, 1979. 304 pages; 16 black-and-white plates; 93 maps and figures. £6.50.  Tits, Wytham Wood, the Edward Grey Institute and its director Dr Christopher Perrins are inseparably linked. D...
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Fifty Years ago

01 April 1979
Comments Other 'REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928. By E. M . Nicholson.  Editor's note--When Mr Nicholson suggested that British Birds should organise a census of British heronries in England, Wales and, if possible, Scotland, I agr...
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Notes

01 April 1979
Comments Notes Little Grebe uo-ending and foot-paddling On 15th April 1977, at Corsham Lake, Wiltshire, I watched a Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis feeding in pools and channels formed when the lake was partly drained. In the deeper pools i...
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Mystery photographs: Common Tern

01 April 1979
Comments Main paper Slender, pointed wings, neat, black cap and forked tail clearly indicate an adult tern. The grey underparts, separated from the cap by a white streak, may initially suggest Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus, but the underparts are too pale for a ...
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Expeditions

01 April 1979
Comments Main paper This new, regular feature stems from an idea by Eric Hosking. At intervals, we shall report on successfully completed expeditions and announce plans for future ones Leaders of expeditions within the western Palearctic (and also by British and I...
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Recent Reports

01 April 1979
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records  This report covers January; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. January will be remembered for the hard weather. The first week was dominated by cold...
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