Reviews

01 December 1995
Comments Reviews Bird Identification: a reference guide. By Kristian Adolfsson & Stefan Cherrug. SOF, Lund, 1995. 379 pages. ISBN 91-86572-24-5. Paperback, Europe: 220 SEK (+60 SEK if cheque); rest of World: 240 SEK (+60 SEK if cheque). The standard researcher...
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News and comment

01 November 1995
Comments News and comment We mentioned last month (Brit. Birds 88: 490) that a way had been found of securing money for conservation from the National Lottery through the National Heritage Memorial Fund. News has now reached us that a grant from this fund of £75,147 has been g...
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News and comment

01 October 1995
Comments News and comment It was in 1990 that the (then) Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the RSPB published Red Data Birds in Britain, identifying 117 species in need of 'our care and attention'. Knowledge relating to the status of some of these species was inevitably sket...
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News and comment

01 September 1995
Comments News and comment It is not often that the members of the 'N & c' team take the unusual step of giving themselves a pat on the back. Just occasionally we feel we deserve it. Under the heading 'Chemicals and the environment' (Brit. Birds 88: 247), we expressed the op...
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News and comment

01 April 1995
Comments News and comment Standing on the top of Sletill Hill, the view was fantastic. For early November in Caithness, the weather was no less fantastic: clear blue skies, not a breath of wind, and temperatures that almost warranted shirt sleeves. Away to the east, Loch More w...
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News and comment

01 March 1995
Comments News and comment Strict regulations to improve the energy efficiency of new buildings. The introduction of carbon or energy taxes and VAT on domestic energy use. Subsidies to the nuclear-power industry to be phased out. Minimum efficiency standards to be applied to dom...
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Reviews

01 March 1995
Comments Reviews Birds of Iberia By Clive Finlayson & David Tomlinson. Mirador Publications, Fuengirola, 1993. 220 pages; over 150 colour plates; 19 line-drawings. ISBN 84-88127-08-1. £20.00. This colourful book will surely achieve the authors' commendable ho...
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News and comment

01 February 1995
Comments News and comment Although the Chinese say they acquired it from Eastern Europe, it appears that a particularly virulent virus that affects Old World Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus spread into Europe from China in about 1984. Within ten years it had probably killed over ...
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News and comment

01 January 1995
Comments News and comment With local government reorganisation in the offing, local, county and regional bird clubs and societies again face the prospect of changes, both minor and major. Every biological group, from fungi, mosses and higher plants to snails, woodlice and mamma...
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News and comment

01 September 1994
Comments News and comment TRAVELLING in the north of England recently, we came across an interesting piece of wet-meadow land. It did not cover a great area, yet a few breeding Eurasian Curlews Nummius arquata were bubbling overhead and obviously had young nearby. An occasional...
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