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 October 1983
Comments Reviews The Birds of Africa. Volume I. By Leslie H. Brown, Emil K. Urban and Kenneth Newman. Academic Press, London, 1982. 521 pages; 28 colour plates; 4 black-and-white plates; many line-drawings and maps. £53.40. This is a huge book: just as heavy a...
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Recent reports

01 October 1983
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked - ~ reports, not authenticated records Dates in this report refer to July except where stated otherwise. In contrast to the cool unsettled spring weather, July was one of the hottest on record. A warm anticyclonic ar...
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News and comment

01 October 1983
Comments News and comment White-tailed Eagles breed again After eight years, during which 52 young Whitetailed Eagles Haliaeetus albicilla have been released on Rhum, Inner Hebrides, breeding has at last been attempted. Eggs were laid in two nests, but none hatched: a g...
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Announcements

01 October 1983
Comments Editorials £l,000-prize 'Mystery Photographs Book' This new book, announced in July {Brit. Birds 76: 287), is published by British Birds on 10th October. The photographs are not all of obscure Asiatic rarities—some are of common birds that occur d...
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