Notes

01 August 1990
Comments Notes Oystercatchers incubating on closely adjacent nests. In early spring 1987, in a quiet corner of Blackpool Airport, Lancashire, soil, sand and chippings were dumped and then levelled. Later, the area became partly covered by vegetation and up to five Oy...
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Mystery photographs

01 August 1990
Comments Main paper Perched conspicuously on a prominent vantage point, this mystery bird shows a fairly substantial bill, relatively long tail and black mask, a combination which quickly shows it to be one of the shrikes Lanius. The blackness of the wings and '...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1990
Comments Other 'LAND-RAILS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. I am pleased to report that the Land-Rail (Crex crex) turned up this year in quite average numbers in the district of Cheadle, Staffordshire . . . This very dry season is bringing on a very early hay harvest, and this...
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Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

01 August 1990
Comments Main paper The weather during this winter period was milder and wetter than average everywhere, with temperatures 2.5ºC above normal in much of southern and eastern England Unsettled westerly weather in early November changed to warm anticyclonic southeasterlies...
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Reviews

01 September 1979
Comments Reviews Animal Marking: recognition marking of animals in research. Edited by Bernard Stonehouse. Macmillan, London, 1978. 257 pages; several black-and-white plates and line-drawings. £10.00.  This volume comprises 21 papers delivered at a s...
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Recent Reports

01 September 1979
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers June, with some May and early July records; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to June. The cool spring weather continued in June until 18th, when an anticycl...
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News and comment

01 September 1979
Comments Editorials Eric Hosking's 50 years ago... On 2nd October—his seventieth birthday—a selection of Eric Hosking's photographs will go on exhibition at the Kodak Galleries in High Holborn. The exhibition, to mark Eric's 50 years as a bird-photographer, will be op...
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Requests

01 September 1979
Comments News and comment Colour-marked Greenland White-fronted Geese The Greenland White-fronted Goose Study group is planning to mark birds of the race Anser albifrons flavirostris on the west coast of Greenland with large-numbered, white Darvic rings in summer 1979. ...
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