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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 ... Read More

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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... Read More

Important Bird Areas: Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island

01 November 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The Tristan da Cunha archipelago and nearby Gough Island are the only cool-temperate oceanic islands in the South Atlantic.They are globally important breeding sites for eight million pairs of seabirds, including four endemic breeding species.... Read More

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01 August 1980 Comments Reviews Eleonora's Falcon: adaptations to prey and habitat in a social raptor. By Hartmut Walter. University of Chicago Press, London & Chicago, 1979. 410 pages; 59 figures and 36 black-and-white photographs. £24.50. Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleono... Read More