Notes

01 March 1981 Comments Notes Undertail-coverts of Little Grebe According to the literature, one important distinction between Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps and Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis is the white undertail-coverts and vent of the American species. In B...
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Reviews

01 September 1978 Comments Reviews Wildlife Sound Recording. By John B. Fisher. Pelham Books, London, 1977. 173 pages; 16 black-and-white photographs; 17 figures. £5-95 Many would-be sound recordists are discouraged by the thought that the subject is too technical. This book ex...
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Notes

01 September 1978 Comments Notes Bittern apparently feeding at night by artificial light At 23.30 GMT on 23rd January 1976, while walking along a canal at Kingsmead, Ware, Hertfordshire, I noticed something moving under a sodium lamp a little ahead of me. On further investigat...
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