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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The only British wintering grounds for Bean Geese Anser fabalis of the western race fabalis to have been permanently occupied for many years lie in the Yare Valley, east Norfolk. The discovery of some individuals carrying coded ...

World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar...

Mystery photographs

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Notes

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Letters

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Corrections

01 December 1982 Comments Editorials Pages 19 BEHAVIOUR OF BLACK-WINGED STILTS Line 3 of the first paragraph on Intraspecific behaviour: 'Only a metre' should read 'Only a mate'. 26 EUROPEAN NEWS Bonelli's Eagle 'Hieraaetus pennatus' should read 'Hieraaetus fasciatus'.&nbs...

Reviews

01 December 1982 Comments Reviews The Garden Bird Book. Edited by David Glue. Macmillan, London, in association with the British Trust for Ornithology. 1982. 208 pages; 8 colour plates, numerous black-and-white photographs, and two-colour line drawings. £7.95. The introduction...

Short reviews

01 December 1982 Comments Reviews Migration Paths through Time and Space. By R. Robin Baker. (Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. Paperback, £5.45) Continuing, on a generally popular level, the author's ideas propounded in The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration (1978: reviewed Br...

Recent reports

01 December 1982 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates refer to September, unless otherwise stated. For the first eight days of the month, high pressure to the south maintained a westerly flow across most of the country. A sma...

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