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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Editorial

01 January 1980
Comments Editorials At a time when price increases are an all too familiar part of life, it is very pleasing to us and to Macmillan Journals Ltd that, due to the doubling of the number of subscribers in the past two years, the basic subscription price of British Birds can...
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Recent reports

01 January 1980
Comments News and comment This report covers October, and all dates refer to that month. The month's weather was dominated by an anticyclone over the Continent, which gave southeasterly winds across the North Sea tor long periods. The eastward-moving depressions crossing the At...
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