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 December 1988
Comments Reviews The Dragonflies of Europe. By R. R. Askew, (Harley Books, Great Horkesley, 1988. 291 pages. £49.95.) Every species meticulously illustrated in colour with the text covering description of the adult, biology (behaviour, jizz, habitat, etc.), flight per...
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Notes

01 December 1988
Comments Notes Fulmar attempting to take young Raven from nest. On 29th April 1985, while walking along the cliffs at Yesnaby, Mainland, Orkney, I approached a traditional nest site of a Raven Corvus corax. From about 150 m, I looked through binoculars at the nest, w...
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