Reviews

01 May 1986
Comments Reviews Neotropical Omithology. Edited by P. A. Buckley, Mercedes S. Foster, Eugene S. Morton, Robert S. Ridgely and Francine C. Buckley. Ornithological Monographs No. 36. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, 1985, 1,044 pages; eight colour plates; eigh...
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Recent reports

01 May 1986
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to February unless otherwise stated. A blocking anticyclone to the northeast, which established a flow of very cold air from Siberia, remained in pos...
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News and Comment

01 May 1986
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Condor news. Even the tarnest of conservation-minded people must have been staggered by the astonishing reports Coming out of California concerning the California ...
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Request

01 May 1986
Comments Editorials Hampshire tetrad atlas breeding survey. This year marks the start of a four-year survey organised by the Hampshire Ornithological Society to map the distribution of breeding birds in the county. We hope that all birders resident in or visiting the...
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Announcements

01 May 1986
Comments Editorials 'British Birds' in Thailand 1986. The special 'BB' tour to Thailand during 24th January to 11 th February 1986 was a huge success. The 16 days in the field resulted in the very high total of 354 species, including all the expec...
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Letters

01 May 1986
Comments Letters 'British Birds' and conservation. In reading through the last four years' back numbers of British Birds I have to praise you for its overall quality, its presentation and the high standard of the articles. Nowhere, however, can I find a major article o...
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Notes

01 May 1986
Comments Notes Abnormal duration of parental care by male Blackbird. At 16.05 GMT on 14th April 1981, in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, a female Blackbird Turdus merula collecting food for her six-day-old nestlings was killed by a Tawny Owl Strix aluco hunt...
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PhotoSpot. 20. Hazel Grouse

01 May 1986
Comments Main paper The Hazel Grouse Bonasa bonasia occurs in the boreal and temperate climatic zones, especially but not exclusively in mountainous regions, and reaches its westerly limit in northern and southeastern France. Mountainous areas are favoured: nowadays the V...
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