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01 October 1977 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers July and the first part of August; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to July. The first week of this period was very warm and the consequent increase...

News and comment

01 October 1977 Comments News and comment Conference on European bird protection co-operation The Deutsche Bund für Vogelschutz has invited representatives of the major European bird protection organisations to discuss this autumn at Mainz their common position towards European Econom...

Requests

01 October 1977 Comments Editorials Descriptions of hybrid wildfowl Hybrid wildfowl are most commonly to be seen in or near collections. The ordinary birdwatcher often regards them as aesthetically and conservationally undesirable, besides being uninteresting. It is, however, the...

Letters

01 October 1977 Comments Letters Field guides and the appreciation of birds It is always good to find credit given where it is due. Hence I was glad to see Bruce Campbell's suggestion (Brit. Birds 70: 172) that W. B. Alexander's Birds of the Ocean (ig28) was probably the first...

Notes

01 October 1977 Comments Notes Displays of Moorhen In bis paper on the breeding behaviour and biology of the Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (Brit. Birds 67: 104-115, 137-158), N. A. Wood described displays performed on water when intruders were near a nest containing eggs and y...

Mystery photographs

01 October 1977 Comments Main paper Until the differences between Long-eared Asio otus and Short-eared Owls A. flammeus in the field were analysed by A. H. Davis and Robin Prytherch [Brit. Birds 69: 281-287, plate 49), flight identification of these species was seldom attempted, or a day...

Personalities. 9. Jeffery Boswall

01 October 1977 Comments Main paper My first encounter with Jeffery Boswall was at a meeting of the Junior Bird Recorders' Club in London's Caxton Hall in early September 1948, and resulted in my taking him to the bomb-devastated Cripplegate-Moorgate area to see his first Black Redstarts...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1976

01 October 1977 Comments Main paper This is the nineteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. Details of the composition of the committee and other matters relating to its work during the year have already been published (Brit. Birds 70: 306- 308). After the phenomenal procession o...

Recent Reports

01 June 1955 Comments News and comment Normally April and May provide us with quite a scattering of vagrants from southern and south-eastern Europe, but this year such wanderers seem to have been rather few. There were two reports of a Little Egret (Egretta gar^etta) on St. Mary's (Isles of Sc...

News and Comments

01 June 1955 Comments News and comment N e w Dictionary of Birds.--Work has been going on in earnest for over five years on a New Dictionary of Birds, a centenary enterprise of the British Ornithologists' Union. The formidable task of organising and editing has been undertaken by Sit Landsboro...

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