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01 August 1994 Comments Reviews Wildwatch Information System, version 2, with UKMap. 3.5-in. or 5.25-in. computer disc, 44-p. manual. Computer Concepts (Northern), South Shields, 1994. £79.00. Input your bird records with date, place, grid reference, numbers, etc., and output t...

The Hoopoe's spreadeagle posture: predator reaction or sunning?

01 March 1993 Comments Main paper Hoopoes Upupa epops sometimes use a remarkable posture which has been variously interpreted as an alarm, defensive or cryptic reaction to an overhead raptor and also as sunning. The posture is shown in an earlier photograph (Brit. Birds 83: plate 138) ...

Foraging behaviour and identification of Upcher's Warbler

01 June 1990 Comments Main paper As noted by Shirihai (1987), Upcher's Warbler Hippolais languida is one of the least-known West Palearctic warblers. It is a fairly common spring passage migrant in Oman, and in 1988 it occurred commonly from late April to mid May in a 1-km²...

Reviews

01 September 1985 Comments Reviews A Dictionary of Birds. Edited by Bruce Campbell and Elizabeth Lack. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1985. 670 pages; over 500 black-and-white plates, line-drawings and diagrams. £39.00. The majority of books that one is asked to review one s...

Reviews

01 July 1984 Comments Reviews Perspectives in Ornithology: essays presented for the centennial of the American Ornithologists' Union. Edited by Alan H. Brush and George A. Clark Jr. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983. viii + 560 pages. £20.00.The AOU celebrated its 100th ...

Notes

01 October 1976 Comments Notes Breeding success of Red-throated Divers on Hascosay The note by D. P. Cyrus on the breeding success of Red-throated Divers Gavia stellata on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1971 {Brit. Birds, 68: 75-76) prompts me to record the following. B. Hawkes and I ...

Notes

01 October 1971 Comments Notes Feeding methods of Long-tailed Skuas.--R. J. Sandison's note on a Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longkaudus surface-skimming like a Black Tern Chlidonias niger (Brit. Birds, 57: 250) prompts me to record that in August 1962 I several times watched these at...

Letters

01 January 1968 Comments Letters Little or White-rumped Swift ? Sirs,---The interesting article by I. J. Ferguson-Lees on Apus affinis {Brit. Birds, 60: 286-290) prompts me to raise two points. The first is the choice of the vernacular name 'White-rumped Swift' in preference to that of '...

Notes

01 March 1967 Comments Notes Lesser Kestrels feeding after dark on insects attracted to artificial light.--At dusk each evening during 13th- 15th May 1964, at Titov Veles, Yugoslavia, I watched up to 43 Lesser Kestrels Falco naumanni hawking for moths and other insects in the vicinit...

Notes

01 September 1962 Comments Notes Shelduck moulting in breeding area.--On 9th July 1961, in an area of extensive fresh grazing marshes in north Kent, I noticed an adult male Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) swimming along the edge of a large fleet. The knob on its bill had regressed, but it was...