Reviews

01 December 1993
Comments Reviews Great Auk Islands: a field biologist in the Arctic. By Tim Birkhead . Illustrated by David Quinn. T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 1993. 275 pages; 14 colour plates; 91 black-and-white plates; 36 line-drawings. ISBN 0-85661-077-1. £22.00....
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Letters

01 December 1993
Comments Letters Daurian Redstart in Scotland. Dr Alan Knox's paper on behalf of the BOU Records Committee on the occurrence of the Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus on the Isle of May, Fife, in 1988 (Brit. Birds 86: 359-366) highlights well the problems of maintai...
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Notes

01 December 1993
Comments Notes Common Buzzard taking Common Teal in flight On 24th November 1985, at Milngavie Reservoir, Lanarkshire, I saw a Common Buzzard Buteo buteo drop on to a Common Teal Anas crecca in flight and carry it off. The duck had taken off with a flock of...
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