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Roof assemblies of lapwings and plovers in Britain

01 January 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The use of the large roof areas of commercial and industrial premises for daytime roosting by Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus and European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria is a relatively new phenomenon, confined mostly...

Notes

01 September 1998 Comments Notes The northeast Algerian breeding population of White Storks Ciconia ciconia normally leaves for sub-Saharan winter quarters in July and August, at the time when other long-legged marshbirds arrive to winter alongside the large resident population of Cat...

Status and behaviour of the Tenerife Kinglet

01 September 1996 Comments Main paper The Tenerife Kinglet Regulus teneriffae appears to be a little-studied taxon, despite the fact that its taxonomic status has given rise to much debate. This paper summarises our knowledge of this attractive bird. ABSTRACT Over the years, the sm...

Field identification of Pine Bunting

01 December 1995 Comments Main paper The Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos breeds mainly in the open woodland and forest edge of Siberia and west to the Urals. It is a partial migrant, wintering in northern China and northern India to Afghanistan, with a few west to the Middle East (reg...

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...

The ornithological year 1993

01 October 1994 Comments Main paper This report attempts to summarise the major bird movements and influxes of 1993, as well as rarity highlights. All the rarities noted here have been accepted by either the BBRC or the Irish Rare Birds Committee. Those records still pending are, therefo...

Reviews

01 June 1994 Comments Reviews Birds of Skokholm. By Michael Betts. Bioline, for the Dyfed Wildlife Trust, Cardiff, 1992. 74 pages; 19 line-drawings; 76 histograms and graphs. ISBN 0-9520432-0-3. Paperback £4.50. This book gives a concise, readable account of data gathered sin...

Reviews

01 March 1993 Comments Reviews H a n d b o o k o f the Birds o f Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. vol. VI: warblers. By S. Cramp et at. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. 728 pages; 31 colour plates; numerous line-drawings. ISBN...

Raptor migration at Eilat

01 April 1992 Comments Main paper Raptor migration at Eilat. Hadoram Shirihai and David A. Christie. Recent work has shown that Eilat in southern Israel is one of the best places in the world for observing migrating Palearctic raptors. This paper describes the huge raptor...

Reviews

01 January 1992 Comments Reviews Bird Trapping and Bird Banding: a handbook for trapping methods all over the World. By Hans Bub. Translated by Frances Hammerstrom & Karin Wuertz-Schaefer. Cornell University Press, New York, 1991. 330 pages; 158 black-and-white plates; 298 line-dr...