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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

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... 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

Monthly marathon

01 December 1986 Comments Other The third photograph (plate 262 in the September issue) was clearly trickier to identify than was either of the first two (Skylark 68% right and Brambling 87% right). Entrants identified it as: Bluethroat Luscinia svecica (45%) Sedge W'arbler Acrocepha... Read More