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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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 November 1984
Comments Other 'If I read him correctly, Mr. F. Stubbs (antea, p. 155) seems to think that song is nothing more than the ebullition of superfluous energy. That is to say that it plays as much or as little part in the life of a bird as steam escaping into the air from...
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Reviews

01 November 1984
Comments Reviews The Birds of the Soviet Union: a sound guide [Russian]. By Boris N. Veprintsev. Three 30cm 33.3 rpm long-playing records, nos. C90-18023/ 4, 5/6 & 7/8. 1982. Melodiya, All-Union Studio for Recorded Sound, 32-34 Smolensk Square, Moscow 200, USSR. Ob...
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Recent Reports

01 November 1984
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to August unless otherwise stated. The prolonged settled weather this summer continued throughout August as high-pressure areas remained nearby. The few weath...
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News and comment

01 November 1984
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Pert Pools Project: 10th birthday For the last ten autumns, a shallow pool adjacent to the coast road at Pett Level, East Sussex, has been partly drained to provid...
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