Diary dates

01 December 1988
Comments Editorials This list covers January to December 1989. 6th-8th January BTO RiNGfNG AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire. Details from Chris Mead, BTO, Beech Grove, Tring, Hertfordshire HP23 5NR. 16th January. RSPB...
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Birdcraft. 1. Trail-walking

01 December 1988
Comments Main paper The aim of this occasional series is to pass on tips which may improve readers' fieldcraft when birdwatching. For each topic, the authors will not only have drawn on their own experience, but also summarised advice gleaned from other specialists.The&nb...
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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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Reviews

01 December 1988
Comments Reviews A Field Guide to the Waders of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East. By Peter Colston & Philip Burton. Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, London, Auckland and Toronto, 1988. 23 colour plates; 95 line-drawings; 53 maps. £9.95.If yo...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 December 1988
Comments Other 'CAROLINA CRAKE IN OUTER HEBRIDES. AN immature male Carolina Crake (Porzana carolina) was shot by Mr. A. Blain (Galson Lodge, Stornoway), near Ness, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, on November 12th, 1913, and sent to the Natural History Museum in the flesh.' (B...
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Monthly reports: August reports

01 December 1988
Comments News and comment The unsettled weather experienced in July did not continue into August. High pressure in mid Atlantic brought quiet, but cool northerlies until 4th, when the high-pressure centre moved over the south of England, and warm southerly air arrived to give a...
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Letters

01 December 1988
Comments Letters The identity of 'Mystery photograph 97'. In the light of 25 years' experience in studying Aythya hybrids, I do not consider that the bird in mystery photograph 97 {Brit Birds 77: plate 254; 78: plate 19; 81: plate 343) is a Tufted Duck A. fuligula X Po...
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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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Mystery photographs

01 December 1988
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery bird (plate 310, repeated here) is clearly either a chat or a wheatear Oenanthe, but which one? At first glance, it is rather nondescript, but female and immature wheatears, which are essentially brown, were an identification probl...
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