Notes

01 August 1992 Comments Notes 'Water-boiling' display by Whooper and Bewick's Swans. From the mid 1980s, at Welney, Norfolk, we have noticed a regularly occurring display by Whooper Cygnus cygnus and Bewick's Swans C. columbianus feeding in high densities on waste potatoes tipped o...
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Fieldwork action BTO news

01 August 1992 Comments Editorials Once in a while, BTO survey results bring great cheer. The Peregrine Survey of 1991 is one such instance. The survey has revealed that the Peregrine Falco peregrinus has reached a new high in its population level in Britain. There are now at least 1,05...
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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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