News and Comment

01 April 1955
Comments News and comment A new edition of the Field Guide.--Many bird-watchers find it difficult to remember the time when A. Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, by Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort and P. A. D . Hollom, was not as essential a part of their equipment...
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Reviews

01 April 1955
Comments Reviews T h e P o p u l a r H a n d b o o k of British Birds. By P . A. D . H o l l o m . 3rd (revised) edition. Witherby, L o n d o n , 1962. xxiii-f-511 p a g e s ; 151 plates. 48s. When The Popular Handbook first appeared in 1952, it made available to a far wi...
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Notes

01 April 1955
Comments Notes Ringed Plover breeding on cliff top,--In mid-June 1962 D . Carr, R, M. Lockley and I found a pair of Ringed Plovers {Charadrim hiaiicula) breeding on top of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire, within a hundred yards of the cliff edge. The site was a fairly l...
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Peregrines and homing pigeons

01 April 1955
Comments Main paper I N A L L C O U N T R I E S where there are still Peregrines {Falcoperegrinus), and where pigeon-racing is widely practised by different sections of the community, there is generally a marked antagonism between those interested in birds of prey and their ...
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