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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...

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 '...

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...

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...

Plumage variation and identification of the 'Yelkouan Shearwater'

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The classification of the European breeding shearwaters related to the Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus, and the identification of the Mediterranean forms yelkouan and mauretanicus, colloquially known as the 'Levantine Shearwater' and the 'Balearic Sh...

Breeding season summary

01 January 1976 Comments News and comment ...

News and Comment

01 January 1976 Comments News and comment Nightingale census The British Trust for Ornithology has announced (BTO Mews no. 76) that an attempt is to be made in 1976 to make a first full census of the Nightingale. This attempt to cover the species' entire range in southern Britain will ...

News and Comment- New author

01 January 1976 Comments News and comment This feature was started in 1963 by R. P. Cordero, who three years later was compelled by the pressure of his activities to relinquish it to J. L. F. Parslow, who, in turn, on his appointment to the Nature Conservancy, handed over to Robert Hudson in M...

BTO Garden Bird Feeding Survey

01 January 1976 Comments Editorials BTO Garden Bird Feeding Survey This survey is checking each winter the species, numbers and food preferences of those birds coming to gardens to take foodstuffs artificially presented (natural foods such as berries on shrubs are omitted). A cou...

Reviews

01 January 1976 Comments Reviews Watching Birds. By James Fisher, revised edition by Jim Flegg, T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1974. 159 pages; 14 black-and-white photographs, line illustrations. £2.80. Many birdwatchers have been guided in their first steps in ornitholo...

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