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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 January 1990 Comments Reviews Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir. By Seabirds at Sea Team: Stuart Benn, Stuart Murray and Mark L. Tasker. (Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough, 1989. 47 pages. Paperback £5.00). A remarkably comprehensive and concise publication on two of Scotl...

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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 ...

Notes

01 September 1969 Comments Notes Fish jumping into Heron's mouth On 16th August 1969, at Talybont Reservoir, Breconshire, we saw a Heron Ardea cinerea standing on the edge of a small concrete 'waterfall' about two feet high; it was leaning forward in such a manner that its open bill was ...

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 '...

Letters

01 February 1966 Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...

Some Comments on the problems of separating Reed and Marsh Warblers

01 May 1965 Comments Main paper [ T H E FOUR LETTERS which follow form a kind of special symposium on the difficulties of distinguishing Marsh Warblers Acrocephalus palustris and Reed Warblers A. sdrpaceus by their songs and even in the hand. When we received the first from K. Atkin and...

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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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Notes

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Some Comments on the problems of separating Reed and Marsh Warblers

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