News and comment

01 May 1967 Comments News and comment "Torrey Canyon* and after.--Sooner or later the wrecking of a jumbo-tanker had to happen; now it has. Understandably, the first concern of government, press and public alike when the Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones reef was for the holiday ...
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Reviews

01 May 1967 Comments Reviews The Bird Faunas of Africa and its Islands. By R. E. Moreau. Academic Press, London, 1966. 424 pages; 65 figures (including many maps and a number of habitat photographs). 100s. Reg Moreau--as he is known even to those who have not the pleasure of knowing ...
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Notes

01 May 1967 Comments Notes Winter breeding of Shags.--On 19th February 1966, on an islet off Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey, I found eight nests occupied by Shags Pbalacrocorax aristotelis and could see eggs in two of the lower ones. By 27th February heavy seas had washed away all exce...
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Birds in Ireland during 1963-65

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper years 1960-62 were reviewed in January 1964 by D . G. Andrew (Brit. Birds, 57: 1-10). The information that he summarised came mainly from the Irish Bird Reports which have continued to appear promptly under the expert hand of Major R. F. Ruttledge. T h e ...
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Recent reports

01 November 1955 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the thirty days from n t h September to ioth October, but it brings in some earlier reports received too late for inclusion in the previous one {Brit. B...
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News and Comment

01 November 1955 Comments News and comment Conference of European Ringing Centres.--A Conference of European Ringing Centres was held in Paris in October to discuss plans for the orientation of ringing towards certain selected species, the advisability of controlling or abandoning ringing of speci...
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Letters

01 November 1955 Comments Letters Colour-marked and leucistic Barnacle Geese Sirs,--I should be most grateful if anyone w h o sees Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) in north-west Scotland, the Hebrides or Ireland during the next two winters would look for individuals wearing North America...
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Reviews

01 November 1955 Comments Reviews The H o u s e Sparrow. By D . Summers-Smith. Collins, London, 1963. x v i + 2 6 9 p a g e s ; one colour and 32 black-and-white photographs; 36 text-figures. 25 s. The distinguished reputation of the New Naturalist series is greatly enhanced by this lates...
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