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Birdcraft. 2. Pishing and squeaking

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper The aim of this occasional series is to pass on tips which may improve readers' fieldcraft when birdwatching. For each topic, the authors will not only have drawn on their own experience, but also summarised advice gleaned from other specialists.Attrac...

Product reports

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...

Mystery photographs

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper In relation to the vegetation, last month's mystery bird (plates 15 & 45) would appear to be a small passerine. What can be seen of its bill looks fine, and it has fairly long, slender legs. The bird is relatively unmarked below, but has a very pro...

Goshawk breeding habitat in lowland Britain

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper Despite the fascination that it holds for birdwatchers, the Goshawk Accipiter gentilis in the wild remains a rarely sighted and understudied species in Britain. Following persecution in the nineteenth century, it was lost as a regular breeding spe...

PhotoSpot. 27. Sinai Rosefinch

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper The rosefinch genus Carpodacus includes 18 species breeding in the Palearctic and three in North and Central America. Only four species occur in the Western Palearctic: Scarlet Rosefinch C. erythrinus, Pallas's Rosefinch C. roseus, Great Rosefinch C. r...

Observations at a Wren roost

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper The communal roosting of Wrens Troglodytes troglodytes is well documented (e.g. Armstrong 1955; Brit. Birds 62: 157-158, 244; 72: 104-107; 76: 579-580; E. A. Ellis, Eastern Daily Press 22nd February & 17th March 1986, and in lift.). During January-...

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper O N August 7th, 1944, while studying birds on the salt-marsh round Tetney Creek, Lines., on the Humber estuary, I observed two or three smallish diving-duck which puzzled me ; and on August 8th, independently, S/Ldr. Peter Hill saw the birds in the same p...

Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper THROUGH the kindness of Mr. M. C. Harman, the owner, and by permission of the Admiralty the writers were able to spend from July 2nd to loth, 1942, on Lundy. The primary object was to investigate the status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus),'...

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