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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News and comment

01 April 1967 Comments News and comment Army Bird-watching Society.--Of the bird-watching societies run by the three armed services, that of the Army is perhaps the least well known. Its main aims are to promote and encourage bird-watching in the service and to co-operate with other ornithologi...
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Requests for information

01 April 1967 Comments Editorials Irish Peregrine Survey.--The Irish Society for the Protection of Birds is organising a survey of Peregrines Falco peregrinus in the Republic of Ireland in 1967. The main objects are to arrive at an accurate estimate of the number of nesting pairs and, if ...
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Letters

01 April 1967 Comments Letters Eruptions of Great Tits and other species Sirs,--I was interested in Dr. C. M. Perrins's paper on the effect of the seed crop of the beech Fagus sylvatka on the populations and movements of the Great Tit Partis major (Brit, Birds, 59: 419-432). To strengt...
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Reviews

01 April 1967 Comments Reviews The Snow Bunting. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1966. 316 pages; 1 coloured and 18 blackand-white photographs; 11 text figures. 45s. A most arduous scientific project has at last come to fruition in this book. The challenge of ...
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