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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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 June 1959 Comments Notes residence in Shetland we took counts about once a week for two years of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on an area of cliffs in southwest Mainland. The counts are given in full and discussed in The Fulmar (1952) by James Fisher (pp. 347 and 482-488). These F...

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01 June 1958 Comments Notes " R e c e n t reports and n e w s " section in our March number (antea, p . 132), brief mention was made of the fact that a number of North American Ruddy Ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis) had escaped from the Wildfowl Trust collection at Slimbridge, Gloucesters...

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01 January 1957 Comments Notes Group-display of Smews.--On 5th February 1956, at Swithland Reservoir, Leicestershire, I watched a form of social display in a group of Smews (Mergus albellus) consisting of three males and two females, for a period of about half an hour, just before dusk...

American Land birds in Western Europe

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper DURING the past ten years it has become increasingly apparent that the status of American land-bird vagrants in the British Isles would have t o be reconsidered. One of us ( R . S . R . F . ) wrote in 1950 t o t h e B . O . U . List-Committee, which was t...

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

Foraging behaviour and identification of Upcher's Warbler

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