Notes

01 November 1977
Comments Notes Kestrels hunting long-eared bats On thq evening of 5th August 1975, in calm, hot, sultry weather with good visibility, I watched two Kestrels Falco tinnunculus hunting bats around the cliffs of Middle Head and Kay Nest, Bilsdale Midcable, ...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1977
Comments Main paper The fine bill, distinctive face pattern and rounded crown give the warbler (plate 123, page 456, repeated at reduced size here) the look of a typical Phylloscopus. Without wing-bars or prominent supercilium, it looks rather ordinary, and there is nothi...
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Christmas bookshop

01 November 1977
Comments Main paper Nowadays, scores of books about birds are published annually. Some are excellent, many are good and only a few are bad, but it is not always easy to distinguish those that are genuinely helpful and, in many cases, essential. We have, therefore, ta...
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Thermal soaring of raptors

01 November 1977
Comments Main paper The relationship between the soaring of raptors and the daily temperature cycle is investigated  Although most birds are very active soon after dawn, no experienced field observer would expect to see birds of prey soaring over flat country...
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News and Comment

01 November 1977
Comments News and comment New breeding birds From Scotland comes the exciting news of a new British breeding species: two pairs of Lapland Buntings Calcarius lapponicus each reared four young at one site and a total of five males and one female were found at three other...
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Bird Photograph of the Year

01 November 1977
Comments Editorials The first of these annual awards was in 1976 and the winning photographer, M. C. Wilkes, was presented with a cheque for £100 and an engraved salver by Sir Peter Scott at a press conference in London (Brit. Birds 70: 133-136, 310-311). The 1977 award ...
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