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Letters

01 February 1991 Comments Letters The introduction of the Chukar In 'Points of view' (Brit. Birds 79: 656-657), Derek Goodwin drew attention to the dilution of the British population of the Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa by hybrids between this and other species of Alectoris. In h...

Notes

01 February 1991 Comments Notes Night Herons and Little Egrets preying on fish while flying. In the late afternoon of 13th June 1987, during a visit to the northern shore of Manyas Gölu, northwest Turkey, Per-Anders Bertilsson, Rolf Simonsson and I observed large numbers of herons c...

Identification of Arctic Redpoll Carduelis hornemanni exilipes

01 February 1991 Comments Main paper There are two races of Arctic Redpoll Carduelis hornemanni: C. h. hornemanni from northern Greenland and Ellesmere Island to Baffin Island, and C. h. exilipes from the northern extremes of Fenno-Scandia, the USSR, Alaska and mainland Canada. The former...

Seventy-five years ago

01 February 1991 Comments Other "THERE is a polyglot Starling in this garden. Sometimes he rehearses a recitation from memory. At other times he improvises according to his fancy, and now and then he hits an unexpected nail on the head with remarkable success. Thus the other morning ...

Short reviews

01 February 1991 Comments Reviews Livre Rouge des Oiseaux Nicheurs d'Alsace. (Centre d'Etudes Ornithologiques d'Alsace, Bitche, 1989. F 120.00). Few regions of France have been as little explored by British birdwatchers as Alsace, but this northeastern comer of the country has ...

Reviews

01 February 1991 Comments Reviews Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. By J. N. Dymond, P. A. Fraser and S. J. M. Gantlett. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1990. 366 pages; many maps, diagrams and line-drawings. £19.00. What value lies in the scores of county bird reports, ...

Recent Reports

01 February 1991 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 18th December 1990 to 17th January 1991 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. American Wigeon Anas americana Pair, Castle Cauldwell (Co. Fermanagh), 16th January; single males at Ballycotton...

News and Comment

01 February 1991 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' British Birdwatching Fair, August 1990. Writing his weekly column in The Times before the first national Birdwatching Fair, Simon Barnes cheerfully described the fo...

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