Recent Reports

01 January 1991
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 10th November to 17th December 1990. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Lesser While-fronted Goose Anser etythropus Slimbridge (Gloucestershire), 7th~Ilth December. Lesser Scaup Aythya af...
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If the caption fits

01 January 1991
Comments Editorials Can you think of an apt, humorous caption to accompany the photograph of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus in plate 15 on page 40? A small prize will be sent to the winner. Send your suggestions on a postcard to If the caption fits, Fountains, Park L...
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News and Comment

01 January 1991
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds', Scaly-sided Merganser study/ The Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus, with a population estimated at only around 1,000 birds, is one of the world's rarest wildf...
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Announcements

01 January 1991
Comments Editorials 'BB' and National Bird News.W e are pleased to announce that the telephone bird-news-line organisation set up to support conservation, National Bird News, has offered its help to BB. National Bird News currently runs 'Twitch-line', ' BTO News Line...
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Short reviews

01 January 1991
Comments Reviews Harriers of the British Isles. By Roger Clarke. (Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1990. 24 pages. Paperback £1.95). This is a good introduction to the group. It covers the main points of biological interest and is splendidly illustrated. Hen Ha...
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Reviews

01 January 1991
Comments Reviews The Birds of North-East Scotland. Edited by S. T. Buckland, M. V. Bell and N. Picozzi. North-East Scotland Bird Club, Aberdeen, 1990. 473 pages; 16 black-and-white plates; 200 line-drawings; 258 maps. £19.95. As the first completed Atlas project for a...
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Birdcraft. 3. Clothing

01 January 1991
Comments Main paper The aim of this occasional series is to pass on tips which may improve readers' fieldcraft when birdwatching. For each topic, the authors will have not only drawn on their own experience, but also summarised advice gleaned from other specialists. ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 January 1991
Comments Other 'Unlike most species of duck, Sheld-drakes are not clumsy on land. They assembled on their leking-ground about 11 a.m. and 3 to 4 p.m. Some bathed and then sat apart preening themselves. Others began to play at once . . . When close together, the wings...
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PhotoSpot. 31. Desert Warbler

01 January 1991
Comments Main paper In the semi-arid desert of the Southern Arava in Israel, there is no relief, even in winter, from the eye-aching glare of the sand and the heat of the sun beating mercilessly onto the back of your neck. Suddenly, you hear a strange call and turn to see...
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Letter

01 January 1991
Comments Letters Spread-wing posture of Cormorants and Shags Just outside our house, at Anstruther, Fife, we have often seen Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis and Cormorants P. carbo surface on the sea, holding in their bills large flatfish, at times amazingly wide, whic...
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