Reviews

01 October 1996 Comments Reviews Auguries and Omens: the magical lore of birds. By Yvonne Aburrow. (Capall Bann Publishing, Chieveley, 1994. 217 pages. ISBN 1-898307-11-3. Paperback £10.95) The author is clearly an expert on magic and folklore, with an interest in birds, rather than ...
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01 October 1996 Comments Reviews The Breeding Birds of the United Arab Emirates. By Simon Aspinall. Hobby Publications, Liverpool, 1996. 173 pages; 66 colour photographs; 100 breeding maps. ISBN 1-872839-04-5. Paperback £14.99. Collating data collected over years of research for...
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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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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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