Mystery photographs

01 January 1990
Comments Main paper -t ^f The large raptor depicted in plate 360 last month (and repeated A ^ v f here) has a large, powerful bill, long, rather broad wings, and well-fingered primaries. These features suggest an eagle of some kind.The heavy bill with prominent gape line ...
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European news

01 January 1990
Comments Main paper With this twenty-sixth selection, we are delighted to announce a further strengthening of support, with the inclusion of records from 29 countries. We are especially pleased to be able to draw attention to the addition of Tunisia to our list. New conta...
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Short reviews

01 January 1990
Comments Reviews Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir. By Seabirds at Sea Team: Stuart Benn, Stuart Murray and Mark L. Tasker. (Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough, 1989. 47 pages. Paperback £5.00). A remarkably comprehensive and concise publication on two of Scotl...
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Reviews

01 January 1990
Comments Reviews Handbuch der Vogel der Sowjetunion. Band 4. Galliformes, Gruiformes. Edited by R. L. Potapov and V. E. Flint. A. Ziemsen Verlag, Wittenberg Lutherstadt, 1989. 427 pages; 20 colour plates; 111 figures and maps. DM95.00.Volume 4 of the German translation...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 January 1990
Comments Other 'THE Yellowhammer (Emberiza c. citrinella) is known in western Carnarvonshire indifferently as Penfelen (i.e. Yellow-head) or Gwas y neidr (i.e. Servant of the Adder). The latter name is also applied to the Adder-bolt or Dragonfly. A common Welsh name ...
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Announcements

01 January 1990
Comments Editorials Send in your 1989 records now If you have not already done so, now is the time to submit all your relevant 1989 records. The names and addresses of the County/Regional Recorders are listed on pages 38-40. Free subscriptions for County...
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Fieldwork action

01 January 1990
Comments Editorials CBC & WBS results. Fieldworkers in the Common Birds Census and the Waterways Bird Survey will see their results this month in a major BTO/NCC publication: Population Trends in British Breeding Birds (paperback, £12.00). The workings of both scheme...
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