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Status and behaviour of the Tenerife Kinglet

01 September 1996 Comments Main paper The Tenerife Kinglet Regulus teneriffae appears to be a little-studied taxon, despite the fact that its taxonomic status has given rise to much debate. This paper summarises our knowledge of this attractive bird. ABSTRACT Over the years, the sm...

Field identification of Pine Bunting

01 December 1995 Comments Main paper The Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos breeds mainly in the open woodland and forest edge of Siberia and west to the Urals. It is a partial migrant, wintering in northern China and northern India to Afghanistan, with a few west to the Middle East (reg...

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01 June 1994 Comments Reviews Birds of Skokholm. By Michael Betts. Bioline, for the Dyfed Wildlife Trust, Cardiff, 1992. 74 pages; 19 line-drawings; 76 histograms and graphs. ISBN 0-9520432-0-3. Paperback £4.50. This book gives a concise, readable account of data gathered sin...

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01 March 1993 Comments Reviews H a n d b o o k o f the Birds o f Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. vol. VI: warblers. By S. Cramp et at. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. 728 pages; 31 colour plates; numerous line-drawings. ISBN...

Raptor migration at Eilat

01 April 1992 Comments Main paper Raptor migration at Eilat. Hadoram Shirihai and David A. Christie. Recent work has shown that Eilat in southern Israel is one of the best places in the world for observing migrating Palearctic raptors. This paper describes the huge raptor...

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01 January 1992 Comments Reviews Bird Trapping and Bird Banding: a handbook for trapping methods all over the World. By Hans Bub. Translated by Frances Hammerstrom & Karin Wuertz-Schaefer. Cornell University Press, New York, 1991. 330 pages; 158 black-and-white plates; 298 line-dr...

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01 August 1991 Comments Reviews The Good Birdwatchers Guide. By Peter Jennings. (Ficedula Books, Llandrindod Wells, 1991. 482 pages. Paperback £9.95). Some 2,500 birdwatching sites in Britain get three to ten lines each. Access information uses grid references, making OS maps essent...

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01 March 1991 Comments Reviews Bird Flight: an illustrated study of birds' aerial mastery. By Robert Burton. (Facts on File Ltd, Oxford, 1990. 160 pages. £14.95) This is a very attractive and accurate presentation of the current propagated theories. This subject, of both po...

Sabine's Gulls and other seabirds after the October 1987 storm

01 May 1989 Comments Main paper In a country where everyone supposedly talks about the weather, the storm of 15th/16th October 1987 and its aftermath was one of the most talked-about, written-about and filmed manifestations of weather ever experienced in Britain (Meteorological Offic...

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01 February 1989 Comments Reviews An Atlas of Wintering Birds in the Western Algarve 1986-87. By Mark Bolton. (A Rocha Trust, Portimao, 1987. 82 pages. Paperback £4.50). Planning a winter break in this area? If so, you will certainly wish to refer to this Atlas with its four to six ma...

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Status and behaviour of the Tenerife Kinglet

Field identification of Pine Bunting

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Raptor migration at Eilat

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Sabine's Gulls and other seabirds after the October 1987 storm

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