Fieldwork action BTO news

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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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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Short Reviews

01 June 1986 Comments Reviews The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History. Edited by Michael Allaby. (OUP, 1985. £20.00) Despite three years at university studying botany, two studying zoology, and a further three researching in ecology, 90% of the words in this dictionary are still ...
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Recent reports

01 June 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to March unless otherwise stated. The high-pressure systems to the north of Britain and Ireland which brought the bitterly cold air in from Siberia d...
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