News and comment

01 November 1995 Comments News and comment We mentioned last month (Brit. Birds 88: 490) that a way had been found of securing money for conservation from the National Lottery through the National Heritage Memorial Fund. News has now reached us that a grant from this fund of £75,147 has been g...
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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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Notes

01 September 1994 Comments Notes Avocets feeding in compact spinning group. In early February 1990, at Big Lake in the Djoudj National Park for Birds, Senegal, large numbers of Avocets Recurvirostra avosetta were feeding normally in water some 20 cm deep. Suddenly, 150-200 of them dre...
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