Letter

01 April 1981
Comments Letters Tail shape of Bulwer's Petrel M. R. Alibone commented on the apparent lack of wedge shape to the tail of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii {Brit, Birds 73: 217). In April 1971, I saw several Bulwer's Petrels off the bulge of Africa in the vicin...
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Announcements

01 April 1981
Comments Editorials 'A Notebook of Birds -- 1907-1980' This new book--an anthology of 'Notes' and 'Letters' published in British Birds, chosen and with a linking commentary by Dr Jim Flegg--will be published in July 1981 by Macmillan London. It is f...
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Notes

01 April 1981
Comments Notes Cormorants perching on overhead cable Further to Neil Trout's note (Brit. Birds 73: 310), I should like to add an observation of some 60 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo standing together on thick overhead cable near Welney, Norfolk, at...
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Fifty years agoÉ

01 April 1981
Comments Main paper 'FIELD-REFLECTIONS ON THE NESTING, SONGS AND CRIES OF THE BRITISH MARSH- AND WILLOW-TITMICE . . . The "Willow's" utterances are utterly unlike those of its cousin . . . to me at any rate, it resembles a cross between the jug of the Nightingale and the ...
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A breeding study of Nightjars

01 April 1981
Comments Main paper The Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus is one of those birds whose decrease in numbers and contraction of range in Britain and Ireland has been going on for a long while, perhaps 100 years but certainly 50 (Parslow 1973, Stafford 1962). The factors respons...
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Recent reports

01 April 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not fully authenticated records This report covers January, to which month all dates refer unless otherwise stated, The Azores anticyclone centred to the west and south dominated the weather pattern throughout the m...
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News and comment

01 April 1981
Comments News and comment Greenland Whitefronts Before we are buried in letters from Scottish goose-counters, we wish to say that we are aware of the error made in the announcement of the new RSPB reserve at the Ken/Dee Marshes, Kirkcudbrightshire (Brit. Bir...
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Requests

01 April 1981
Comments Editorials Garganey and Cirl Bunting records As a result of representations from several people, the Rare Breeding Birds Panel has agreed to add Garganey Anas querquedula and Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus to its list. Since the Panel's most recently publis...
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