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01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...

News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...

Reviews

01 February 1958 Comments Reviews p a g e s ; coloured frontispiece by Roland Green; 12 photographic plates. (Witherby, London, 1957). 21s. INTENDED to provide detailed practical information for keepers, and would-be keepers, of waterfowl, this small book fulfils its aims admirably. A wor...

Notes

01 February 1958 Comments Notes Leach's Petrels in Shetland.--On 6th August 1957, Leach's Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) were located over the boulderstrewn slopes of The Noup, Foula, Shetland. One was caught and at the same time two others could be heard calling- in flight. One was a...

Reports from Britain of Black-headed Gulls Ringed in the Oberlausitz, East Germany

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper " L A R G E NUMBERS of ringed Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus) are reported in Britain each winter, the places of origin being chiefly the countries of northern Europe, with a not inconsiderable number from Czecho-Slovakia, Saxony and B a v a r i a "...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXV. Pygmy Owl

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper T H E PYGMY O W L (Glaucidiutn passerimitn) is a Palaearctic species which h a s not yet been recorded in Britain, though in western Europe t h e typical form is found in central and northern Scandinavia, Finland, French Jura, the Alps (including - Switze...

British recoveries of birds Ringed Abroad

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper [This list continues from that published in 1956 (antes, vol. xlix, pp. 438-452). Among records of special interest included in it are a number relating to wildfowl, which help to show the lelation of breeding areas to winter quarters. Camargue-ringed Mal...

The birds of Tiree and Coll

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper of Zoology, Glasgow University*) (Plates 18-20) T H E islands of Tiree and Coll, Inner Hebrides, lie totally within the vice-county Mid Ebudes (103). Situated between Mull and the Barra Isles, they stretch some 45 miles S . W . into the ocean from Ardnamu...

REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928

01 November 1929 Comments ...

LETTERS: THE DIVING-HABITS OF THE LONG-TAILED DUCK; FLEDGING-PERIODS OF WOOD-PIGEON AND ROBIN; FULMARS BREEDING IN DURHAM