News and comment

01 April 1995
Comments News and comment Standing on the top of Sletill Hill, the view was fantastic. For early November in Caithness, the weather was no less fantastic: clear blue skies, not a breath of wind, and temperatures that almost warranted shirt sleeves. Away to the east, Loch More w...
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News and comment

01 September 1994
Comments News and comment TRAVELLING in the north of England recently, we came across an interesting piece of wet-meadow land. It did not cover a great area, yet a few breeding Eurasian Curlews Nummius arquata were bubbling overhead and obviously had young nearby. An occasional...
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Letters

01 November 1993
Comments Letters Red-crested Pochard hybrids. The occurrence of hybrids involving Red-crested Pochards Netta rufina may not be so unusual as is suggested by A. H. J. Harrop's note (Brit. Birds 86: 130). A. P. Gray (1958) recorded hybrids with 11 species of the genus An...
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