Short reviews

01 January 1991 Comments Reviews Harriers of the British Isles. By Roger Clarke. (Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1990. 24 pages. Paperback £1.95). This is a good introduction to the group. It covers the main points of biological interest and is splendidly illustrated. Hen Ha...
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01 January 1991 Comments Reviews The Birds of North-East Scotland. Edited by S. T. Buckland, M. V. Bell and N. Picozzi. North-East Scotland Bird Club, Aberdeen, 1990. 473 pages; 16 black-and-white plates; 200 line-drawings; 258 maps. £19.95. As the first completed Atlas project for a...
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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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01 December 1988 Comments Reviews A Field Guide to the Waders of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East. By Peter Colston & Philip Burton. Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, London, Auckland and Toronto, 1988. 23 colour plates; 95 line-drawings; 53 maps. £9.95.If yo...
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