Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters D o some Wallcreepers migrate? Recent letters by David Elias, H. G. Alexander and Guy Mountfort on the movements of the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria referred respectively to observations in Cyprus (Brit. Birds, 63: 393-394) and the Indo-Pakistan subc...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1986
Comments Other The third photograph (plate 262 in the September issue) was clearly trickier to identify than was either of the first two (Skylark 68% right and Brambling 87% right). Entrants identified it as: Bluethroat Luscinia svecica (45%) Sedge W'arbler Acrocepha...
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Corrections

01 December 1986
Comments Editorials Vol 78 Pages 422 PLUMAGE, AGE AND MOULT TERMINOLOGY Plate 200 shows an adult winter (not a first-winter) Dunlin Calidris alpina. 486 PARROT CROSSBILLS IN BRITAIN Line 22: 'Tyne & Wear' should read 'Durham'. 522 RECEN...
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PhotoSpot. 21. Desert Finch

01 December 1986
Comments Main paper On moderate views, the Desert Finch Rhodospiza obsoleta is just another sombrely coloured desert bird (plate 356), so that the first close views of one can come as quite a surprise--or at least they did to me--when they show a striking and beautifully ...
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If the caption fits

01 December 1986
Comments Editorials This new, occasional, short feature will show one of the photographs submitted to British Birds which we feel demands to have an appropriately humorous or irreverent caption. We shall suggest ours, but hope that readers will react by coming up with an ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 December 1986
Comments Other 'On this large loch there were only two pairs of Black-throated Divers, and we did not discover the other nest. I should have liked to have spent more time amongst these birds, but the nesting season is so short; and as I had decided to spend the whole...
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Notes

01 December 1986
Comments Notes B e h a v i o u r o f j u v e n i l e Baillon's Crake During July and August 1982, at Phassouri reedbeds, Akrotiri salt lake, Cyprus, Gordon W. Rayner and I spent many hours in a hide watching at least six Baillon's Crakes Porzana pusilla (plates 352-354)...
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Recent reports

01 December 1986
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to September unless otherwise stated. Weather and passerine movements With anticyclones never very far away, the weather remained calm and settled fo...
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News and comment

01 December 1986
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Ornithologist honoured Congratulations to Professor Geoffrey Matthews, the Wildfowl Trust's Director of Research and Conservation, who was recently created an OBE....
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Reviews

01 December 1986
Comments Reviews The Secret Life of an Oakwood: a photographic essay. By Stephen Dalton with Jill Bailey. Century, London, 1986, 160 pages; 145 colour plates. £14.95.  Stunning! That is really the only word to describe this 'photographic essay" on a small oa...
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