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01 August 1997 Comments Letters Steven Gregory (Brit. Birds 90: 150-151) has made three interesting points about hybridisation between Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis and White-headed Ducks O. leucocephala. First, such hybridisation need not be a disaster, but could increase the adapt...

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...

Studies of West Palearctic birds. 194. Corn Bunting Miliaria calandra

01 September 1995 Comments Main paper 'Look at the common Com Bunting as he sits on wires or the hedgetop: he is lumpy, loose-feathered, spiritless. He is a dull bird and seems to know it.' (Warde-Fowler 1922) The Corn Bunting has rarely received a good press. Even its common names tend to...

Reviews

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...

Reviews

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...

Notes

01 February 1992 Comments Notes Plumage variation of Clamorous Reed Warblers in Israel. The Clamorous Reed Warbler Acrocephalus stentoreus is represented in the Western Palearctic by the nominate race, which breeds in Egypt, Jordan. Recent work has, however, revealed a...

Reviews

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...

Notes

01 August 1991 Comments Notes Alert posture of Yellow-billed and Great White Egrets. Great White Egrets Egretta alba occur in winter in West Africa alongside Yellow-billed Egrets E. intermedia. While a close view of the head and facial structure will serve to separate them, the two...

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Status and behaviour of the Tenerife Kinglet

Field identification of Pine Bunting

Studies of West Palearctic birds. 194. Corn Bunting Miliaria calandra

Reviews

Reviews

Raptor migration at Eilat

Notes

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Notes

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