Reviews

01 December 1974
Comments Reviews The Seabirds of Britain and Ireland. By S. Cramp, W. R. P. Bourne and D. Saunders. Collins, London, 1974. 287 pages; four colour and eight black-and-white plates; 32 maps, linedrawings. £3.50. This long-awaited book gives an excellent survey o...
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Notes

01 December 1974
Comments Notes Hen Harriers' hunting behaviour in south-west Scotland Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus are generally regarded as solitary hunters. For example, J. J. and F. C. Craighead (1956, Hawks, Owls and Wildlife) found that in winter Marsh Hawks C. c. hudsonius had ...
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Notes

01 September 1968
Comments Notes Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent.--On ioth September 1967 J.G.H. found a Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla on the WAGBIWildfowl Trust Experimental Gravel Pit Reserve at Sevenoaks, Kent. Identification was made easier because of his previous experience...
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