Recent Reports

01 January 1977
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records  This report covers October and the first part of November. Except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to October. The special location of the British Isles in the northern...
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News and Comment

01 January 1977
Comments News and comment 'Just a few duck and God knows what else' So said a Shetland Islands councillor about one of Shetland's best known wetlands. Indeed, the latest threat to Shetland's birdlife comes not from oil, but from the bulk of the island's councillors. Des...
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Diary dates

01 January 1977
Comments Editorials As a service to subscribers and to national and regional societies, we shall henceforth be listing the major meetings and conferences at six-monthly intervals. This first list covers those events that have been notified to us as taking place during Jan...
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Reviews

01 January 1977
Comments Reviews Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. By J. T. R. Sharrock and E. M. Sharrock. T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1976. 336 pages; 221 vignettes; many maps and diagrams. £6.00. This is a companion book to Dr J. T. R. Sharrock's Scarce Migrant Bi...
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Notes

01 January 1977
Comments Notes Behaviour of Manx Shearwaters Previous letters on the behaviour of the Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus (Brit. Birds 67: 77; 68: 119-120) prompt me to record an incident that I witnessed on 15th June 1974 off Fetlar, Shetland, At about 00.30 h...
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Personalities. 1 P. J. Grant

01 January 1977
Comments Main paper In this new, regular feature, the aim is to put a face and a personality to well-known British and Irish ornithologists who ma y be only name s to many readers Peter James Grant—Peter to his birdwatching friends, Jimmy to his family—is an o...
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