Reviews

01 February 1981
Comments Reviews The Popular Handbook of Rarer British Birds. Second edition (revised). By P. A. D. Hollom. Witherby, London, 1980. 190 pages; one black-and-white and 55 colour plates; several line-drawings. £12.00.  The first edition (published in 1960) ...
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Recent reports

01 February 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not fully authenticated records The dates in this report refer to November unless otherwise stated. The weather during the first part of the month was dominated by a high-pressure system. Until Bth, the anticyclone ...
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News and comment

01 February 1981
Comments News and comment European wildlife and natural habitats The Netherlands and Liechtenstein have become the first countries to ratify the Council of Europe's Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, which was signed in Berne ...
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Requests

01 February 1981
Comments Editorials Rare issues of 'BB' Stocks of the issues for October 1978. October 1979. November 1979 and May 1980 have run out. Anyone who has a copy which is not needed and who returns it to us will be doing BB (and potential purchasers of the complete volu...
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Announcements

01 February 1981
Comments Editorials 'Birds New to Britain and Ireland' The post-war accounts of birds new to Britain and Ireland which have been published in British Birds (from the 1946 Moustached Warblers Acrocephalus melanopogon to the present day) are being incorporated in a ...
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Letters

01 February 1981
Comments Letters Bill-base feathering and apparent bill thickness of some waders Many observers have in the past attempted to support the identification of suspected rare species, especially stints and peeps Calidris, by noting the thickness of the base of...
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Notes

01 February 1981
Comments Notes Peregrine feeding Herring Gull chick to young On 24th May 1978, on the north Cornish coast, I was watching the eyrie of a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus. The falcon was brooding a solitary chick about 18 days old and the tiercel was perche...
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