Recent reports

01 December 1975
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The first half of August was very hot and settled and only in the last week did conditions really change, although thunderstorms were not infrequent in southern Britain from mid-month. The ...
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News and comment

01 December 1975
Comments News and comment Woodcock research Late in 1974 the International Waterfowl Research Bureau set up a Woodcock Research Group, at the request of the International Council for Hunting and Wildlife Preservation. The Woodcock is secretive, a partial migrant, and po...
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Letters

01 December 1975
Comments Letters The origin of British Aquatic Warblers In his letter (Brit. Birds, 67: 443-444), Dr J. T. R. Sharrock made the hypothesis that the autumn records of Acrocephalus paludicola in Britain and Ireland are probably to be explained by a reverse migrat...
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Reviews

01 December 1975
Comments Reviews Threatened Birds of Europe. Edited by Robert Hudson with introduction by Stanley Cramp. Macmillan, London, 1975. 128 pages; 56 coloured and 3 black-and-white plates; 9 line drawings; 59 maps. £4.95. Profound is my hope that no reviewer will ha...
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Notes

01 December 1975
Comments Notes Partridge calling from elevated perch On the evening of 3rd March 1961, near Gorsham, Wiltshire, I saw a Partridge Perdix perdix calling from the apex of some stables approximately five metres from the ground. The bird continued to utter the ty...
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Requests for information

01 May 1962
Comments Editorials Wreck of Fulmars in February and March 1962.--Unusual numbers of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) were noted close inshore on various parts of the east coast during February, In some areas a high proportion were of dark or intermediate phases. During the next...
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