Recent reports

01 November 1989
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 15th September to 12th October 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Leach's Petrel Oceanodrotna leucorhoa Portrush (Co. Antrim), 156 on 6th October. Great White Egret Egretta alba Minsmere ...
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Monthly reports: June 1989

01 November 1989
Comments News and comment High pressure to the west maintained a cool unsettled flow of northerly air over Britain and Ireland during the first seven days. Much warmer southerly air arrived from the south after the centre of pressure moved to the Continent, with temperatures ex...
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News and Comment

01 November 1989
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Congratulations! Two RSPB staff members feature this time. We heartily approve the OBE given to Frank Hamilton in the Birthday Honours List, in recognition of over...
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Short reviews

01 November 1989
Comments Reviews The Book of Indian Birds. By Salim Ali. (Bombay Natural History Society/Oxford University Press, India & Oxford, 1973, reprinted 1988. 11th edition. 187 pages. £9.95) This classic little book has served as an introduction to Indian birds for ...
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Reviews

01 November 1989
Comments Reviews Important Bird Areas in Europe. By R. F. A. Grimmett and T. A. Jones. Illustrated by N. Arlott. ICBP Technical Publication No. 9. ICBP & IWRB, Cambridge, 1989. 888 pages; 36 line-drawings; 39 maps. Paperback £19.50.The word 'Important' certainly a...
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Fieldwork action

01 November 1989
Comments Editorials From its earliest days, British Birds has always encouraged birdwatchers to become involved in their own or co-operative studies of birds. Before the existence of organisations such as the BTO, British Birds was organising nest censuses of Grey Herons ...
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1989
Comments Other The third 'Monthly marathon' has been won, by R. N. Hobbs of Hastings, East Sussex. His winning 11-in-a-row sequence is repeated on page 571. The bird in plate 276 was named by competitors as follows: Fan-tailed Warbler Cisticola juncidis (65%) Gracefu...
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Notes

01 November 1989
Comments Notes Western Reef Heron eating Phylloscopus warblers. On 11th March 1984, in a well-watered hotel garden at Hurghada, Egypt, a solitary Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis schistacea was observed at close quarters. Suddenly, the heron darted forward and took...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 November 1989
Comments Other 'ON September 4th, after reading the Report on the Land-Rail in British Birds, I asked my bailiff is he had heard or seen any this year and he replied in the negative. Oddly enough, in the afternoon when some oats were being cut no less than five were ...
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