Reviews

01 June 1982
Comments Reviews The Plovers, Sandpipers and Snipes of the World. By Paul A. Johnsgard. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London, 1981. 493 pages; 32 colour and 32 black-and-white plates; diagrams, numerous maps and line-drawings. £27.00. We needed a...
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Recent reports

01 June 1982
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records Dates in this report refer to March unless otherwise stated. Until 20th March, the weather was unsettled, with westerlies bringing a series of fronts across the country, and mainly cool air...
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News and comment

01 June 1982
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' Japanese Crested Ibis Sometimes it is nice to be proved wrong! Such was the case over our recent comment (Brit. Birds 75: 187) that the Japanese Crested Ibis can no...
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Announcements

01 June 1982
Comments Editorials New member for Rarities Committee The votes of the regional bird recorders and bird observatories in the election for a new member of the Rarities Committee (Brit. Birds 74: 314) were: K. E. Vinicombe 32, C. S. Waller 19. Thus, Keith Vinicombe ...
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Diary dates

01 June 1982
Comments Editorials 20th July BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. T. M. Gullick on 'Birds in central Spain'. Central London. Non-members should write (enclosing SAE) at least two weeks before to Hon. Secretary, R. E. F. Peal, 2 Chestnut Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent TN 13 3AR. ...
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Letters

01 June 1982
Comments Letters Daily weather summaries I noticed, in your February issue (Brit. Birds 75: 100), a reference to the demise of the Daily Weather Report, which in fact occurred at the end of 1980. The Meteorological Office is, however, now not without a daily re...
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Notes

01 June 1982
Comments Notes Breeding Bitterns in Cambridgeshire 5,000 years ago J. C. U. Day and J. Wilson (Brit. Birds 71: 285-300), H.J. Harvey (Brit. Birds 71: 466) and G. P. Catley (Brit. Birds 72: 238) have given valuable data on the recent history of Bitterns B...
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Mystery photographs

01 June 1982
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery photograph (repeated here as plate 100) was clearly a small passerine with a bold head pattern, a longish tail, a sleek outline, and a conical bill with an angled cutting edge to the upper mandible. All these characters indicate a ...
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Product reports

01 June 1982
Comments Main paper In this new feature, we shall periodically be reviewing commercial items of interest to birdwatchers. The items included will have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews will give the personal opinion of the reviewer; they wil...
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Waders in Siberia

01 June 1982
Comments Main paper This special photographic feature is to mark the forthcoming XVIII International Ornithological Congress, which will take place in Moscow in August this year. We are especially grateful to A. J. V. Knystautas for supplying most of the photographic prin...
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