Notes

01 September 1998 Comments Notes The northeast Algerian breeding population of White Storks Ciconia ciconia normally leaves for sub-Saharan winter quarters in July and August, at the time when other long-legged marshbirds arrive to winter alongside the large resident population of Cat...
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Letters

01 March 1998 Comments Letters The lead story in November's 'News and comment' on 'Kittiwake versus Great Skua' (Brit. Birds 90: 530) suggested that predation by Great Skuas (Bonxies) Catharacta skua on Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla is a recent phenomenon. Not so! Bonxies killing and ...
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Letters

01 May 1996 Comments Letters In October 'News and comment' (Brit. Birds 88: 489), Shelley Hinsley's letter in the New Scientist about feeding peanuts in the summer was quoted. Readers may feel that this reference indicated the wholesale death of nestling tits Parus nationwide thro...
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Reviews

01 April 1993 Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol 1. Ostrich to ducks. Edited by Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot & Jordi Sargatal. Lynx Editions, Barcelona, 1992. 696 pages; 446 colour plates; 568 distribution maps. ISBN 84-87334-09-1. £95.00.With various han...
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Notes

01 January 1982 Comments Notes Behaviour of Golden Plovers in strong wind. On 16th November 1968, during gale-force winds and rain, I visited Stithians Reservoir, a bleak and exposed locality near Truro, Cornwall. At close range for about two hours, I watched a group of abou...
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Letters

01 December 1977 Comments Letters Black-headed Gulls foot-paddling on grassland Joh. J. Frieswijk's letter (Brit. Birds 70: 266), recording frequent observations of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus foot-paddling on grassland in the Netherlands, contrasted with my note drawin...
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Letters

01 July 1977 Comments Letters Half a pair of Black-browed Albatrosses In the course of their discussion of proof of breeding (Brit. Birds 69: 277, 457), Bruce Campbell and E. J. M. Buxton omitted to comment on one important consideration: the conservation status of potentia...
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Notes

01 August 1969 Comments Notes Overland migrations of Common Scoters The Handbook notes that Common Scoters Melanitta nigra occur on inland waters 'in small numbers irregularly but fairly often' and that such records 'are too frequent . . . during quite settled weather to be dismissed ...
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