Reviews

01 February 1986 Comments Reviews Gulls and Plovers: the ecology and behaviour of mixed-species feeding groups. By C. J. Barnard and D. B. A. Thompson. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 302 pages; 14 black-and-white plates; 10 line-drawings. £25.00.This book--the first of Croom Helm's project...
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Recent reports

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records.0 The dates in this report refer to November 1985 unless otherwise stated. Weather and seabird movements The cold airstream coming from the north at the end of October which introdu...
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News and Comments

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Sweden's woodpeckers and Cormorants Two of Sweden's rarer breeding species, the White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos and the Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo&...
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Recent Reports

01 January 1977 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records  This report covers October and the first part of November. Except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to October. The special location of the British Isles in the northern...
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News and Comment

01 January 1977 Comments News and comment 'Just a few duck and God knows what else' So said a Shetland Islands councillor about one of Shetland's best known wetlands. Indeed, the latest threat to Shetland's birdlife comes not from oil, but from the bulk of the island's councillors. Des...
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