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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Short reviews

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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Letters

01 July 1990
Comments Letters Snipe with upturned bill. The recent interesting note by Paul D. Morris (Brit. Birds 83: 117, plate 67) recalls a similar instance, involving an incubating female Snipe Gallinago gallinago with an upcurved bill which I photographed in Cumbria (the...
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