Reviews

01 May 1988 Comments Reviews Seabirds: feeding ecology and role in marine ecosystems. Edited by J. P. Croxall. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987. 408 pages. £30.00. Most seabirds eat fish and are therefore potential competitors with the various, and mostly expandin...
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Announcements

01 May 1988 Comments Editorials West Palearctic List Committee The main aims of the WPLC were announced last year (Brit. Birds 80: 176-177). National representatives on the WPLC have now been appointed for most West Palearctic countries, as follows:  ALBANIA No represent...
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Notes

01 May 1988 Comments Notes Three Great Crested Grebes building a nesting platform. On 12th November 1984, at Potteric Carr, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, my attention was drawn to three Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus collecting vegetation and arranging it on a small subme...
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Letters

01 May 1988 Comments Letters Are we getting our figures right? The BTO may well tell me that it is extremely naughty of me to turn their population estimates of winter thrushes Turdus (by D. W. Snow, in Lack 1986) into the rounded ratio of: Blackbird T. merula 28: Song Thrush T. p...
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