Short reviews

01 December 1988 Comments Reviews The Dragonflies of Europe. By R. R. Askew, (Harley Books, Great Horkesley, 1988. 291 pages. £49.95.) Every species meticulously illustrated in colour with the text covering description of the adult, biology (behaviour, jizz, habitat, etc.), flight per...
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Notes

01 December 1988 Comments Notes Fulmar attempting to take young Raven from nest. On 29th April 1985, while walking along the cliffs at Yesnaby, Mainland, Orkney, I approached a traditional nest site of a Raven Corvus corax. From about 150 m, I looked through binoculars at the nest, w...
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Notes

01 April 1988 Comments Notes Pied-billed Grebe catching fish attracted by man. I was very interested in Dan Crawley's recent note (Brit. Birds 80: 72-73) describing how a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus caught fish attracted by bread thrown to waterbirds. I had rather a sim...
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Reviews

01 February 1988 Comments Reviews T h i s book is a guide to the birds and their habitats of the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex a n d C a m b r i d g e s h i r e . P e t e r a n d M a r g a r e t Clarke have c o m b i n e d their own extensive knowledge, gained from a lifetime's bird...
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Short Reviews

01 June 1986 Comments Reviews The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History. Edited by Michael Allaby. (OUP, 1985. £20.00) Despite three years at university studying botany, two studying zoology, and a further three researching in ecology, 90% of the words in this dictionary are still ...
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Reviews

01 May 1986 Comments Reviews Neotropical Omithology. Edited by P. A. Buckley, Mercedes S. Foster, Eugene S. Morton, Robert S. Ridgely and Francine C. Buckley. Ornithological Monographs No. 36. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, 1985, 1,044 pages; eight colour plates; eigh...
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Notes

01 July 1985 Comments Notes Petrels eating contraceptives, polythene and plastic beads. As part of a more detailed study on the food and feeding ecology of the Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, regurgitations from adults and chicks from colonies on the Firths of Forth and Clyd...
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Notes

01 January 1982 Comments Notes Behaviour of Golden Plovers in strong wind. On 16th November 1968, during gale-force winds and rain, I visited Stithians Reservoir, a bleak and exposed locality near Truro, Cornwall. At close range for about two hours, I watched a group of abou...
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Letters

01 December 1977 Comments Letters Black-headed Gulls foot-paddling on grassland Joh. J. Frieswijk's letter (Brit. Birds 70: 266), recording frequent observations of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus foot-paddling on grassland in the Netherlands, contrasted with my note drawin...
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