Mystery Photographs

01 July 1986
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery photograph (plate 158, repeated here) clearly showed an eagle. Although it perhaps looked like a rather short version of a White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla without the typical wedge-shaped tail of that species (note, however...
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Reactions of birds to heavy rain

01 July 1986
Comments Main paper A note by myself and another by David A. Christie on the reactions of wildfowl and waders to rain and hail (Brit. Birds 77: 20-21), with a request for other observations on the subject, stimulated a further 11 notes describing the behaviour of birds in...
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Request

01 July 1986
Comments Editorials Bad photographs In 'Mystery photographs' we like to include good photographs of difficult specics. For our competitions at Conferences, however, and for use in our 'Monthiy marathon' competition, we need prints ofthose photographs which photographers r...
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Announcements

01 July 1986
Comments Editorials New books in British BirdShop. In addition to the continuing special offers concerning The Frontiers of Bird Identification and volumes I and II of The Birds ofAfrica, we can now also offer the following new books:Please use the form on page ...
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Letters

01 July 1986
Comments Letters 'Mystery photographs 92': Franklin's Gull or Laughing Gull? The request to readers for considered opinions about the identity of the mystery gull Larus at Radipole, Dorset, on 13th April 1980, depicted in the July 1984 issue (Brit. Birds 77: plate 112,...
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Notes

01 July 1986
Comments Notes Parent Great Crested Grebe killing own small chick. On 30th June 1984, on a fine sunny morning, I was watching a family of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus at Les Grangettes Nature Reserve on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Each parent carried two chi...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1986
Comments Other 'FULMARS NESTING IN CAITHNESS. On May 30th, 1911, Mr. B. B. Riviere and I took a boat for the purpose of inspecting the cliffs which form Berriedale Head in Caithness. On some of the steeper faces we found that a small colony of Fulmar Petrels (Fulmaru...
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