The first 100 years

01 January 2009 Comments Strictly speaking, this editorial should have appeared in the June 2007 issue, when British Birds will be truly 100 years old. For practical purposes, however, we have decided to celebrate BB's centenary throughout 2007 and Vol. 100 of the journal. The...
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Reviews

01 February 1964 Comments Reviews A Study of Bird Song. By Edward A. Armstrong. Oxford University Press, London, 1963. x i v + 3 3 5 pages; 17 plates; 43 figures and 14 tables. 45 s. Far more work has been done on the vocal behaviour of birds than of all other animals combined. Much of it...
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Notes

01 February 1964 Comments Notes Unusual numbers of sea-birds at Teesmouth in August 1962.--In August 1962 huge concentrations of Sprats Clupea sprattus appeared in the bay and estuary of the River Tees, on the border of Co. Durham and Yorkshire. Many of the fish entering the mouth of th...
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