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Editorial: Birds and marine pollution

01 August 1972 Comments Editorials Press reactions to the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (see also 'News and comment' on page 359) were, perhaps un>avoidably, mixed. Many laid most stress on such features as the absence of the Russian and other governments, the tons of paper...

Notes

01 August 1972 Comments Notes Little Gull dip-feeding over upland fields On 22nd January 1972, at Barley-in-Pendle, Lancashire, I was fortunate to observe a firstwinter Little Gull Larus minutus following a flock of 24 Black-headed Gulls L. ridibundus over the lower slopes of Pendle H...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1971

01 August 1972 Comments Main paper Plates III and 49-12 This is the fourteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. As was announced in 'Changes in the editorial board' (Brit. Birds, 65: 1-3), P. A. D. Hollom has retired as chairman of the committee and we take this opportunity of expr...

Pellet-ejection by hand-reared Great Crested Grebes

01 August 1972 Comments Main paper There are few records of pellet-ejection by grebes. The habit has been observed in the Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis by the late Major Maxwell Knight (D. E. Hanson in lift.) and in the Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus and Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbu...

Recent reports

01 August 1972 Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was remarkably cold, wet and windy--altogether a month of outstandingly bad weather. A shallow depression which drifted in at the end of April brought a pleasant May Day with a light south...

News and comment

01 August 1972 Comments News and comment Environment Conference The much-vaunted United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm between 5 th and 16th June, and a great deal has already been written elsewhere about this jamboree. The conference began badly, for the U.S....

Letters

01 August 1972 Comments Letters E y e colour of immature American Marsh H a w k Following the publication of my paper on a young American Marsh Hawk Circus cyaneus hudsonius near Cley, Norfolk, in the winter of 1957/58 {Brit. Birds, 64: 537-542), R. A. Richardson wrote to point out that...

News and comment

01 July 1967 Comments News and comment Annual report of British Section of I.C.B.P.--The recently published annual report of the British Section of the International Council for Bird Preservation provides evidence of much efficient work carried out during i0t. This and the previous annual repo...

Reviews

01 July 1967 Comments Reviews The Shell Bird Book. By James Fisher. Ebury Press and Michael Joseph, London, 1966. 344 pages; 20 colour plates and 150 blackand-white illustrations. 25 s. The title of this book gives little help to the intending purchaser. Without knowing the author, he...

Notes

01 July 1967 Comments Notes Call-notes of Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes in autumn.-- On 24th September 1966, at the Queen Mary Reservoir, Middlesex, I heard an unfamiliar call which I eventually traced to an apparently immature Slavonian Grebe Podkeps auritus. It persistently ut...

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Editorial: Birds and marine pollution

Notes

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1971

Pellet-ejection by hand-reared Great Crested Grebes

Recent reports

News and comment

Letters

News and comment

Reviews

Notes

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