Recent reports

01 March 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers December, to which month all dates refer unless stated otherwise. Northerly winds during the first week brought in cold Arctic air, but conditions were not severe...
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News and comment

01 March 1981
Comments News and comment Little Tern Symposium Over 40 wardens and conservation stall from a variety of regional and national organisations gathered at Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire, on 4th November 1980 for a one-day discussion on Little Terns Sterna albifrons, with p...
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Requests

01 March 1981
Comments Editorials Status of Reeves's Pheasant Currently, Reeves's Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii is in category D of the British list. Recent checks, however, have indicated that all recorded liberations of the species have failed, while those in Woburn Park, Bedf...
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Photographic requests

01 March 1981
Comments Editorials Periodically, we list the species for which we need good quality blacka n d - w h i t e photographs to illustrate forthcoming papers. O n this occasion, we have listed the urgent requirements separately. Photographers who are able to help should submit...
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Announcements

01 March 1981
Comments Editorials A 'British Birds' Workshop: North American birds 16th to 23rd September 1981 As a service to the most dedicated d specialist birders and ringers, British Birds is pleased to offer an eight-day field-identification workshop in North America...
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Letters

01 March 1981
Comments Letters Hobby studies With reference to Dr Fiuczynski's and D. Nethersole-Thompson's paper on 'Hobby studies in England and Germany' (Brit. Birds 73: 275-295), I should like to add a fifth point to their suggestions for further study: LEAVE WELL A...
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Notes

01 March 1981
Comments Notes Undertail-coverts of Little Grebe According to the literature, one important distinction between Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps and Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis is the white undertail-coverts and vent of the American species. In B...
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