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A Black-headed Gull showing both albinism and melanism

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

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01 June 1971 Comments Reviews Les Oiseaux du Proche et du Moyen Orient. By F. Hue and R.-D. Etchecopar. N. Boubee et Cie, Paris, 1970. 952 pages; 32 colour and 2 black-and-white plates and 356 line-drawings by Paul Barruel; 429 distribution maps; 2 end-maps. Fr 220.00. The two disting...

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01 June 1971 Comments Notes Black Terns feeding over dry land Recent notes (Brit. Birds, 62: 282; 63: 34; 64: 32-33) have suggested that Black Terns Chlidonias niger feed over non-aquatic habitats more commonly than the published records indicate. This is certainly borne out by obse...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 June 1971 Comments Main paper Identification of birds of prey in flight will always be a problem. The best of us will never be able to feel completely confident about a group of species that shows such diversity of plumage, whose silhouettes vary in different circumstances and for whi...

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

01 June 1971 Comments Editorials British Birds has always prided itself on the encouragement it has given to bird identification. As far back as 1907, the first volume included an article by the Hon. Walter Rothschild on the separation of Willow Tits Paus montanus and Marsh Tits P. palus...

Stonechats in Jersey

01 June 1971 Comments Main paper ...

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01 September 1962 Comments Reviews Identification for Ringers: 2. T h e Genus Phylloscopus. By Kenneth Williamson. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, 1962. 86 pages; 1 colour and 4 monochrome plates. 7s. There are now about a thousand ringers in Britain. Many of these are trained and l...

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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...

Studies of less familiar birds 119. Great Grey Owl

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper mbulosd) by Oscar Moberg were published in British Birds in 1956 (49: plates 1-3), but the remarkable flight pictures by Hilding Mickelsson and Goran Hansson n o w reproduced o n plates 60 and 61 more than justify the species being included in this series...

Radar films of migration over eastern England

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper Research Laboratories of Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Co. Ltd., at Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, have taken films of a radar display by time-lapse photography and many of these provide a clear record of bird migration; some were shown at the British O...

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A Black-headed Gull showing both albinism and melanism

Reviews

Notes

Flight identification of European raptors

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

Stonechats in Jersey

Reviews

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds 119. Great Grey Owl

Radar films of migration over eastern England

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