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01 June 1971 Comments Reviews Les Oiseaux du Proche et du Moyen Orient. By F. Hue and R.-D. Etchecopar. N. Boubee et Cie, Paris, 1970. 952 pages; 32 colour and 2 black-and-white plates and 356 line-drawings by Paul Barruel; 429 distribution maps; 2 end-maps. Fr 220.00. The two disting...

Notes

01 June 1971 Comments Notes Black Terns feeding over dry land Recent notes (Brit. Birds, 62: 282; 63: 34; 64: 32-33) have suggested that Black Terns Chlidonias niger feed over non-aquatic habitats more commonly than the published records indicate. This is certainly borne out by obse...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 June 1971 Comments Main paper Identification of birds of prey in flight will always be a problem. The best of us will never be able to feel completely confident about a group of species that shows such diversity of plumage, whose silhouettes vary in different circumstances and for whi...

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

01 June 1971 Comments Editorials British Birds has always prided itself on the encouragement it has given to bird identification. As far back as 1907, the first volume included an article by the Hon. Walter Rothschild on the separation of Willow Tits Paus montanus and Marsh Tits P. palus...

Stonechats in Jersey

01 June 1971 Comments Main paper ...

Recent Reports and News

01 July 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgement alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...

Notes

01 July 1960 Comments Notes Olivaceous Warbler i n Co. Donegal.--At about 6 p.m. on 29th September 1959 I found a strange warbler among the small walled enclosures of the lighthouse grounds at the western end of Tory Island, Co. Donegal. The light was very poor and fading, so that b...

The behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows while rearing young

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper 1959 OBSERVATIONS were made on the behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) rearing their second brood of young in an observation nest-box in the suburban district of Pinner, Middlesex. Fixed near the eaves of a house and eighteen feet ab...

M. S. Wood's garden and bird-table photography

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper graphs of birds in aggressive attitudes shown in this issue, had been recognised as a first-class bird photographer of the conventional type for many years before circumstances forced him to less conventional methods. His family was well known in Lancashi...

Bird of prey numbers on a Hampshire game-preserve during 1952-1959

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper hawks I saw during visits to an estate of approximately 4,000 acres in west Hampshire. T h e species involved were Buzzard (Buteo buteo), Sparrowhawk and Goshawk (Actipiter nisus and gentilis), Marsh, Hen and Montagu's Harriers {Circus aeruginosus, cyaneu...

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Reviews

Notes

Flight identification of European raptors

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

Stonechats in Jersey

Recent Reports and News

Notes

The behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows while rearing young

M. S. Wood's garden and bird-table photography

Bird of prey numbers on a Hampshire game-preserve during 1952-1959

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