Recent reports

01 June 1990
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 6th April to 10th May 1990 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides Elmley RSPB Reserve (Kent), 7th-10th May. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Near Freshwater (Isle of Wigh...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1990
Comments Main paper Entrants obviously found this an easier problem than we had expected. We thought that many more readers would be led astray by the streaked (almost striped) lower breast/belly of this Redwing, showing the dark and strongly marked underparts of the Icel...
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News and comment

01 June 1990
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. A word from the authors. The 'News and comment' postbag contains a growing number of what amount to requests for free advertising for all manner of products. Unles...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 June 1990
Comments Other 'BIRDS AND SHELL-FIRE. I have lately been reading various articles in the papers regarding birds in the war-stricken parts of France, so I thought you might care to have a few of my personal observations on this subject . . . The House-Sparrows continu...
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Short reviews

01 June 1990
Comments Reviews Caring for your Pet Bird. By Dr R. Dean Axelson. (Revised edn. Sterling Publishing, New York; Cassell, London, 1989. 68 pages. Paperback £5.95) An informative guide to diseases of captive birds, which might help in treatment of injured wild birds. TIM...
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Reviews

01 June 1990
Comments Reviews The Macmillan Field Guide to North Atlantic Shorebirds. By Richard J. Chandler. Macmillan, London & Basingstoke, 1989. £12.95. From the viewpoint of the average British birdwatcher, this attractive field guide would seem most likely to compet...
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Requests

01 June 1990
Comments Editorials Transparencies of 1989 rarities. Anyone with high-quality colour transparencies of a 1989 rarity is asked to loan the originals to us for possible use (perhaps in colour) in the next rarities report. To be considered, transparencies must arrive with Dr...
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Announcements

01 June 1990
Comments Editorials Thailand 1990. The British Birds-SUNBIRD trip to Thailand during 21st January to 8th February (plate 144) was as successful as those in previous years, with the usual Siberian species, such as Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella certhiola (to name ...
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Diary dates

01 June 1990
Comments Editorials 10th July BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 800TH MEETING. The Earl of Cranbrook, PhD, on 'Development of habitat and species protection in the European Community.' Central London. Non-members should write (enclosing SAE) at least 21 days before to Hon...
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Letters

01 June 1990
Comments Letters Coto Doñana catastrophe. The Coto Doñana national park in southwest Spain is justly famous worldwide for its wildlife, especially its wealth of birds. It is facing ruin, however, unless the local authorities do an abrupt about-turn and stop developme...
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