Recent reports

01 May 1999 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers 8th March to 4th April 1999. The text and photographs relate to unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Walton Reservoir (Surrey), 16th March; Stowbridge Pit (Norfolk)...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1999 Comments Other The species in the photograph (plate 32, repeated here as plate 74) is clearly a wader, and its general shape and coloration shows that it is either a Calidris or a Tringa sandpiper. The lack of patterning and its dull colour tells us that it is in win...
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News and Comment

01 May 1999 Comments News and comment We have previously drawn attention (Brit. Birds 91: 206) to the dramatic decline in breeding-bird populations on the North Staffordshire Moors, no doubt largely linked to agricultural changes that have included overgrazing and drainage. It had been hop...
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Reviews

01 May 1999 Comments Reviews Global warming might destroy tundra worldwide within the next century. There are many pleasing illustrations by the first author; diagrams, however, are frequently so complex and printed so small that they fail to make their points clearly, and typogra...
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Letters

01 May 1999 Comments Letters THE COMMERCIALISATION OF ORNITHOLOGY It seems strange that a seven-line suggestion by Ian Moorhouse (Brit. Birds 91: 330) that an increase in the average age of observers might help to explain a decline in the numbers of some common birds should be con...
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Notes

01 May 1999 Comments Notes THREE PIED FLYCATCHERS AND A COMMON REDSTART DEAD IN SAME NESTBOX On 24th May 1995, while checking nestboxes at Bailey Einon wood, near Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire, I discovered that one box contained three male Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca a...
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Notice

01 March 1957 Comments Editorials Bird Observatories : new appointments. --· Mr. Kenneth Williamson, who has been Director of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory since it was established in 1948, is leaving the Observatory shortly. To replace Mr. Williamson, the Fair Is!e Bird Observatory- ...
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Letters

01 March 1957 Comments Letters T H E BIRDS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE SIRS,--Material is being- collected for a small book on the birds of Gloucestershire by H. H. Davis, C. M. Swaine and myself; we have already made considerable progress in assembling infprmation. W e would be grateful for fu...
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Reviews

01 March 1957 Comments Reviews Illustrated by PETER SCOTT (Country Life, London, 1956). Vol. I I . 232 pages, 24 colour plates, 29 maps. £6 6s. IN this second volume Mr. Delacour deals mainly with the dabbling or surface-feeding ducks of the genus Anas, in which are grouped 38 sp...
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