Notes

01 August 1990
Comments Notes Oystercatchers incubating on closely adjacent nests. In early spring 1987, in a quiet corner of Blackpool Airport, Lancashire, soil, sand and chippings were dumped and then levelled. Later, the area became partly covered by vegetation and up to five Oy...
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Mystery photographs

01 August 1990
Comments Main paper Perched conspicuously on a prominent vantage point, this mystery bird shows a fairly substantial bill, relatively long tail and black mask, a combination which quickly shows it to be one of the shrikes Lanius. The blackness of the wings and '...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1990
Comments Other 'LAND-RAILS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. I am pleased to report that the Land-Rail (Crex crex) turned up this year in quite average numbers in the district of Cheadle, Staffordshire . . . This very dry season is bringing on a very early hay harvest, and this...
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Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

01 August 1990
Comments Main paper The weather during this winter period was milder and wetter than average everywhere, with temperatures 2.5ºC above normal in much of southern and eastern England Unsettled westerly weather in early November changed to warm anticyclonic southeasterlies...
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Reviews

01 September 1985
Comments Reviews A Dictionary of Birds. Edited by Bruce Campbell and Elizabeth Lack. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1985. 670 pages; over 500 black-and-white plates, line-drawings and diagrams. £39.00.  The majority of books that one is asked to review one s...
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Short Reviews

01 September 1985
Comments Reviews Birds of Kerala: the birds of Travancore and Cochin. By Salim Ali. (Oxford University Press, India; first published 1953, second edition 1969, reprinted 1984. £15.00) This welcome reprint will be indispensable to anyone visiting southern India (and no...
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Recent reports

01 September 1985
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to June unless otherwise stated. An anticyclone gave warm easterly weather for the first few days of the month. From 6th, however, cool nort...
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News and comment

01 September 1985
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Bird films for youth. As part of the International Year of Youth, the first International Ornithological Film Festival will take place in the District of Menigoute...
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Requests

01 September 1985
Comments Editorials Migration surveys and ringing at Eilat, Israel.0 Help is required at the birdwatching centre of the Nature Reserve Authority at Eilat in 1985/86 for: (1) autumn 1985 (ringing of passerines and waders during 15th August to 31st December), and (2...
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