Mike Madders (1957-2009)

01 March 2010
Comments Obituaries Mike Madders was a professional ornitholo- gist, best known for his work on the likely impact of wind-power development on upland birds in Scotland. He is more popu- larly known for the many books he authored and published. Mike was born in Leicester on ...
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Identification of Caspian Gull

01 March 2010
Comments Main paper Abstract This paper deals with the identification of the Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans. The aim is to synthesise what is currently known about the identification of this species and discuss the appearance of proven and suspected hybrids. The paper is spli...
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Reviews

01 March 1951
Comments Reviews The Moult-migration of the Sheld-Duck. By R. A. H. Coombes (Ibis, Vol. 92, pp. 405-418). In this paper Mr. Coombes describes work on the Sheld-Duck, which he has carried on as occasion offered over a number of years and intensively throughout the summer o...
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Notes

01 March 1951
Comments Notes PARTLY as a result of a request for such information (antea, vol. xliii, p. 223) we have received a certain number of records of summer visitors spending the winter of 1949-50 in the British Isles. We have also received several records of species seen un...
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Obituary: E. W. Hendy

01 March 1951
Comments Obituaries ERNEST WILLIAM HENDY, who died in his 78th year on November 1st, 1950, brought a poet's mind and a classical training to the study of birds and wild life, and his approach bore fruit in a rare degree of insight into Nature, matched by an originality and ...
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Sheld-Duck On The Tay Estuary

01 March 1951
Comments Main paper progress has been made in unravelling the tangled life-history of Sheld-duck (Tadorna tadoma). Hoogerheide and Kraak (1942) have shown that many Western European birds assemble in July on the great tidal flats behind the islands fringing the Dutch and Ger...
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