Reviews

01 November 2008
Comments Reviews PETRELS NIGHT AND DAY By Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach. The Sound Approach, Poole, Dorset, 2008. 300 pages, 17 full-page colour plates; many colour photographs; and sonograms of most of the 127 sound recordings presented on two ...
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Letter

01 November 2008
Comments Letters The excellent and informative paper by Heaney et al. (2008) stated that `The [Isles of Scilly] Puffin Fratercula arctica population is of great regional importance and, along with colonies in the Channel Islands and Co. Kerry, marks the southwestern li...
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Conservation research news

01 November 2008
Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra in recent decades, estimated at 86% between 1967 and 2005, has been among the most dramatic of any species in the UK. A similar pattern of decline, including range contraction and local extinct...
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Letters

01 October 1963
Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to Mr. Masefield's note (antea, p . 270), fleas m a y generally b e found in T i t ' s nests in t h e winter, a n d during t h e first few warm days in spring m a y be seen waiting in numbers outside t h e hole ready to j u ...
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Notes

01 October 1963
Comments Notes ON January 21st, 1914, I was shown a couple of very fine Pine-Grosbeaks (Pinicola e. enucleator) that had been, obtained the previous day at Brigbtling, Sussex. They were both males, and one was of a beautiful rosy colour and of a far more gaudy tint tha...
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