Reviews

01 September 1985
Comments Reviews A Dictionary of Birds. Edited by Bruce Campbell and Elizabeth Lack. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1985. 670 pages; over 500 black-and-white plates, line-drawings and diagrams. £39.00.  The majority of books that one is asked to review one s...
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Short Reviews

01 September 1985
Comments Reviews Birds of Kerala: the birds of Travancore and Cochin. By Salim Ali. (Oxford University Press, India; first published 1953, second edition 1969, reprinted 1984. £15.00) This welcome reprint will be indispensable to anyone visiting southern India (and no...
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Recent reports

01 September 1985
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to June unless otherwise stated. An anticyclone gave warm easterly weather for the first few days of the month. From 6th, however, cool nort...
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News and comment

01 September 1985
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Bird films for youth. As part of the International Year of Youth, the first International Ornithological Film Festival will take place in the District of Menigoute...
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Requests

01 September 1985
Comments Editorials Migration surveys and ringing at Eilat, Israel.0 Help is required at the birdwatching centre of the Nature Reserve Authority at Eilat in 1985/86 for: (1) autumn 1985 (ringing of passerines and waders during 15th August to 31st December), and (2...
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Announcements

01 September 1985
Comments Editorials Your last chance to buy 'Big Jake'. That unique disc, Big Jake Calls the Waders, on which Jake Ward brilliantly reproduces the calls of 28 waders, is now available to British Birds readers. The techniques used were featured in the BBC's The Living Worl...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1985
Comments Other '. . . we note that Mr Masefield regards ten species as new to the Staffordshire ornis; but the evidence with regard to the Lesser White-fronted Goose and the Sandwich Tern we should regard as necessitating square brackets.' (Brit. Birds 4: 112; Septem...
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Letters

01 September 1985
Comments Letters Siberian passerine vagrancy in October 1982. I read with great interest the paper by Howey & Bell (1985) concerning the remarkable influx of Pallas's Warblers Phylloscopus proregulus and other Asiatic migrants in October 1982. Having also studied t...
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Notes

01 September 1985
Comments Notes Fulmars attacking and killing Little Auk. At 16.05 GMT on 13th February 1983, at Marsden, Tyne & Wear, B. C. Forrester, J. Knox, A. Murray and I were watching a Little Auk Alle alle in calm conditions 400m offshore. It appeared to be exhaus...
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