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01 August 1980 Comments Editorials Buckinghamshire breeding bird survey During 1980-84, fieldwork for a breeding bird atlas will be carried out on a tetrad (2 X 2 km square) basis in Buckinghamshire under the auspices of the Middle Thames Natural History Society. All birdwatcher...

Announcements

01 August 1980 Comments Editorials Postal auction of cover designs Starting with this month's cover of Great Shearwaters by Ken Baldridge, the line-drawings and scraper-board designs used on the front covers of BB will, whenever the artists give their permission, be available fo...

'BB' goes independent

01 August 1980 Comments Editorials Since its inception, British Birds has been run by a commercial publishingfirm: first by H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd and, since 1st April 1973, by Macmillan Journals Ltd. Now, as from 1st August 1980, the journal is completely independent and will...

The Common Birds Census

01 February 1975 Comments Editorials Thirteen breeding seasons have now passed since the British Trust for Ornithology started its very successful Common Birds Census. The main aim of the scheme has been to keep an annual check on the population levels of our more common birds. The techni...

Request for information

01 February 1975 Comments Editorials Checklist of the birds of The Gambia A comprehensive checklist of the birds of The Gambia is currently being prepared by Jens Kirkeby and Jorn Vestergaard Jensen in co-operation with the Gambian Ornithologists' Society. It is intended that this...

What results from bird-ringing

01 February 1975 Comments Editorials The bird ringing scheme in Britain, run by the British Trust for Ornithology, is the largest outside North America, but there is cause for disquiet in the relatively small output of published analyses and of other papers making use of ringing data. Wit...

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