Recent reports

01 August 1992
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th June to 17th July 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 15th July. Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis 30, Cape Clear I...
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News and comment

01 August 1992
Comments News and comment French disgrace. On behalf of the RSPB, ME took part in a protest in early May against the spring shooting of migrant Turtle Doves Streptopelia turtur in Medoc, France. The protest was led by the Ligue Française pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LP...
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Letters

01 August 1992
Comments Letters Little Grebe apparently imprinted on female Mallard. With reference to the note on a juvenile Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis apparently imprinted on a female Mallard Anas platyrhynchos [Brit. Birds 82: 116), might it not be that the Mallard h...
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Announcements

01 August 1992
Comments Editorials Books in British Bird Shop. The following books have been added to the list this month: Brucker, Gosler & Heryet: The Birds of Oxfordshire. Trodd & Kramer: The Birds of Bedfordshire. For all your book orders, please use the British BirdSho...
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Seventy-five years age

01 August 1992
Comments Other 'SWALLOW NESTING IN A DUG-OUT IN FRANCE. My son, 2nd-Lieut. Eliot Wallis, writes to me that, seeing a Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica) come out of a deserted German dug-out in northeast France, he looked and found a nest ''with four spotted eggs" abou...
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Notes

01 August 1992
Comments Notes 'Water-boiling' display by Whooper and Bewick's Swans. From the mid 1980s, at Welney, Norfolk, we have noticed a regularly occurring display by Whooper Cygnus cygnus and Bewick's Swans C. columbianus feeding in high densities on waste potatoes tipped o...
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European news

01 August 1992
Comments Main paper This thirty-first biannual report includes information from a record 34 countries. We are delighted to be able to draw attention to the addition of Iceland and Moldova to the list of countries represented.New contacts in unrepresented West Palearctic c...
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Fieldwork action BTO news

01 August 1992
Comments Editorials Once in a while, BTO survey results bring great cheer. The Peregrine Survey of 1991 is one such instance. The survey has revealed that the Peregrine Falco peregrinus has reached a new high in its population level in Britain. There are now at least 1,05...
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Reviews

01 August 1992
Comments Reviews The Birds of Bedfordshire. By Paul Trodd & David Kramer. Illustrated by Andrew P. Chick. Castlemead Publications, Welwyn Garden City, 1991. 349 pages; 16 colour plates: 19 black-and-white plates; 56 line-drawings; 112 distribution maps. £18.95.Cou...
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ICBP news

01 August 1992
Comments Editorials Agriculture in eastern Europe--a call for co-operation. A major concern that was highlighted at the ICBP's European Continental Section Conference in Aachen, Germany, this May was that agricultural developments in eastern Europe should not result in de...
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