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01 January 1992 Comments Editorials Nightjars and Corn Buntings. The year 1992 will be busy for BTO members. In the 'Nightjar Survey', initial work in 1991 by volunteers and paid teams in selected centres found far more Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus than expected, in spite of bad weath...
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Notes

01 January 1992 Comments Notes Little Grebes sunning in winter. At 11.30 GMT on 4th November 1988, in Chichester Harbour, West Sussex, I observed three Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis loafing between the yachts in Birdham marina. The yachts were moored closely, side by side, an...
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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...
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Notes

01 June 1984 Comments Notes Unusual feeding behaviour of Shag. The note on feeding behaviour of Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo (Brit. Birds 74: 348) prompts the following. On 5th February 1977, at Bradwell-on-sea, Essex, I watched an immature Shag P. aristotelis working its way a...
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