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Recent reports: Monthly reports

01 January 1989 Comments Editorials We have been striving constantly to increase the usefulness of this popular, regular feature. With 'Recent reports' now appearing separately, and with the twitchers' grapevine now formalised, making up-to-the-minute news of rarities available to all fo...

Editorial

01 May 1981 Comments Editorials On 2nd April, the EEC Directive on the conservation of wild birds came into force, two years after its adoption. It covers ten countries, including much of western Europe, stretching as far east as Greece. It improves the conservation laws in all of th...

Recent prosecutions

01 May 1981 Comments Editorials The Investigations Section of the RSPB's Species Protection Department has been increasingly successful in tracking down and prosecuting egg-collectors, bird-dealers, keepers and others who have stolen eggs or young from nests or killed protected speci...

Request

01 May 1981 Comments Editorials Birds feeding in foam lines Birdwatchers who frequent lakes and reservoirs will be aware of the streaks of foam which form on the surface in the presence of wind. These streaks are due to a system of vortices in the water called 'Langmuir Circu...

Announcements

01 May 1981 Comments Editorials Postal sale of original paintings from the Collins Gem Guide to 'Birds' This little guide to British and European birds was published by Collins last autumn at £1.50. The text is illustrated with 111 paintings by Martin Woodcock, and, by arran...

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