ICBP news

01 November 1991
Comments Editorials In response to a request from the International Council for Bird Preservation, we shall be publishing a regular short feature on international bird conservation topics, in addition to those which we have always included in 'News and comment'. EDS. ...
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Fieldwork action

01 November 1991
Comments Editorials Regional Development Officers. During 1992-93, the BTO will be setting up a new regional network. This will consist of BTO members keen to promote the BTO at the local level in a systematic way. The new volunteers will be called Regional Development Of...
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Letter

01 November 1991
Comments Letters Identification of Meadow and Red-throated Pipits. In a 'Mystery photographs' text {Brit. Birds 79: 34-40), the late P.J. Grant discussed the identification of Meadow Anthus pratensis and Red-throated Pipits A. cervinus, prompted by a series of photogra...
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Notes

01 November 1991
Comments Notes Herons alighting on sea. On 31st August 1985, from the Zuluf offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf, N. J. S. Drummond and I observed a migrating flight of seven Purple Herons Ardea purpurea flying very low over the sea. One of them suddenly a...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1991
Comments Other ' Mr W. J. E. Dawson states that he discovered a pair of Lanius collurio near Athlone about the end of April, 1916. Mr Dawson has kindly sent us further details of the birds he saw and we feel sure from what he says that he was mistaken in his identifi...
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Letters

01 May 1979
Comments Letters A symbol for individuals not adult males The present biological symbols ♂ and ♀ indicate the two sexes, male and female. The suggested introduction of a third symbol {Brit. Birds 71: 544-545) seems strangely illogical. If the...
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Reviews

01 May 1979
Comments Reviews The Herons of the World. By Jame s Hancock and Hugh Elliott. London Editions, London, 1978. 304 pages; 61 colour paintings by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, and line-drawings by Robert Gillmor. £46-00 At first sight, this is an elegant illus...
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Notes

01 May 1979
Comments Notes White Storks migrating at night by utilising oil flares During the evening of 24th February 1978, I witnessed a large movement of White Storks Ciconia ciconia over the Gassi Touil oasis in Algeria (30°N 7°E), the birds apparently using the th...
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Mystery photographs: Gadwall

01 May 1979
Comments Main paper A female (or eclipse male) dabbling duck seen by itself can pose considerable problems in identification. Unless it flaps its wings, the revealing speculum colour often remains completely obscured. The presence of other species for comparison grea...
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