Notes

01 December 1997 Comments Notes With reference to Philip Palmer's note and photograph (Brit. Birds 86: 627, plate 231), it is not unusual for Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus to perch on overhead wires in The Gambia. Others and I have observed this and, indeed, one birdwatcher born and br...
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Reviews

01 June 1994 Comments Reviews Birds of Skokholm. By Michael Betts. Bioline, for the Dyfed Wildlife Trust, Cardiff, 1992. 74 pages; 19 line-drawings; 76 histograms and graphs. ISBN 0-9520432-0-3. Paperback £4.50. This book gives a concise, readable account of data gathered sin...
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Notes

01 June 1994 Comments Notes Hazel Grouse in the Pyrenees. Since the French breeding bird atlas (Yeatman 1976), the Hazel Grouse Bonasa bonasia has been considered nonexistent in the Pyrenees (Elosegui 1985; CROAP 1987). It is true, however, that its secretive nature and habi...
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