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01 May 1976 Comments Letters The continuing slaughter of birds of prey in Britain Your recent editorial (Brit. Birds, 68: 481-483) on the World Conference on Birds of Prey, organised by the International Council for Bird Preservation in Vienna in October 1975, stimulates t...

Reviews

01 May 1976 Comments Reviews Flamingos. Edited by Janet Kear and Nicole Duplaix-Hall. T, & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 246 pages; seven colour plates; 48 black-and-white plates; numerous drawings, maps and diagrams, £8.00. In July 1973 an international gathering ...

Notes

01 May 1976 Comments Notes Reactions of Goldeneyes to boating Until 1966 Chasewater (Cannock Reservoir), Staffordshire, held fewer than ten wintering Goldeneyes Bucephala clangula. In subsequent winters higher numbers have been recorded. Although the reasons for this inc...

Breeding biology of Sanderlings in north-east Greenland

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper In the first detailed account of breeding Sanderlings Calidris alba, Manniche (1910) reported that only females incubated and attended the chicks. Other observers did not always agree, because both males and females were shot at the nest and one or two...

View: A price for conservation?

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper Colin Tubbs is an Assistant Regional Officer for the Nature Conservancy Council and author of 'The New Forest--an ecological history' {ig6g) and 'The Buzzard' (1974)- His research interests include interpretation of the structure of woodland and other ...

Reviews

01 March 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...

Notes

01 March 1961 Comments Notes Beetles in the plumage of birds.--On 25 th May 1959 I picked up a freshly dead Swift (Apus apus) on the sloping concrete bank of Hilfield Park Reservoir, Hertfordshire. On examining the bird I discovered a single beetle of the species Haltka ohracearighti...

A survey of moulting Shelduck on Knechtsand

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper sand-banks which lies 8.1 nautical miles from the German mainland between Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven. It extends from 8Â°i8'E to 8Â°29'i5"E and from 5 3 V ' i 8 " N to 5 3Â°46'i5"N. Robins Balje is a natural boundary on the south-west side, while the ...

Warbler fluctuations in Oak Woodland in the Severn Valley

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper T w o P R E V I O U S P A P E R S of mine in British Birds (1935, 1950) gave population statistics for the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) and four species of warbler--Willow Warbler (Pbylloscopus trnchilus), Chiffchaff (PL collybitd), Garden Warbler ...

The contamination of birds with pollen and other substances

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper A s A RESULTof an appeal in a paper by Ash (195 9), further specimens of polleniferous contaminants, some containing other substances, were removed from the heads of migrant birds in i960. The most notable contribution was made by P.H.J, in the Camargue, ...

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Notes

Breeding biology of Sanderlings in north-east Greenland

View: A price for conservation?

Reviews

Notes

A survey of moulting Shelduck on Knechtsand

Warbler fluctuations in Oak Woodland in the Severn Valley

The contamination of birds with pollen and other substances

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