Reviews

01 September 1981
Comments Reviews Usborne Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe. By Rob Hume, Usborne, London, 1981. 128 pages; colour and black-and-white illustrations on 119 pages. Hardback, £3.99; paperback, £2.50.  Beginners will find this a splendid book. Indeed, it ...
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Short reviews

01 September 1981
Comments Reviews Pigeon Racing: advanced techniques. By Jan Aerts. (Faber & Faber, 1981. £2.50) Paperback version of 1969 book. Illustrated Guide to Birds and Birdwatching. By Neil Ardley. (Ward Lock, 1980. £6.95) A curate's egg of a book, but one is left...
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Recent reports

01 September 1981
Comments News and comment June, to which all dates in this report refer, continued a fascinating spring into a remarkable summer for unusual birds. It is all too easy to forget the excitement of rarities these days--to many birdwatchers, perhaps, the birds are still unlikely to...
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News and comment

01 September 1981
Comments News and comment International ornithological politics Jeffery Boswall has gleaned the following information from The Daily Telegraph (15th June), J o Grimmond on the Wildlife and Countryside Bill: 'If it becomes law you may shoot the Redshank and Curlew. I do ...
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Announcements

01 September 1981
Comments Editorials Peterson Sound Guide: discs and cassettes This superb set of recordings (A Field Guide to the Bird Songs of Britain and Europe by Sture Palmer and Jeffery Boswall) is now available on four packs of four cassettes as well as on 15 LPs. It provid...
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BB'-Sunbird Tour of Thailand

01 September 1981
Comments Main paper If you might be interested in joining this trip in February 1982, please write now to Sunbird Holidays (address below). The tour will be accompanied by BB's managing editor, Dr J. T. R. Sharrock, and all profits from BB subscribers will be donated by S...
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Fifty years ago

01 September 1981
Comments Other 'GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN IN INNER LONDON. On July 12th, 1931, I was sitting in Eaton Square Gardens with my wife and son and we all saw about fifteen feet away a Golden-crested Wren (Regulus r. anglorum) hopping about in the grass, very tame and easil...
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Notes

01 September 1981
Comments Notes Presumed advertising flight of Little Bittern Advertising flight behaviour of Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus is not mentioned in BWP vol. 1, the Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas or The Herons of the World (1978, Hancock & Elliott). ...
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