Birds in Ireland during 1970-74

01 March 1976
Comments Main paper This is the fourth in an irregular series of summaries of observations of Irish birds. The previous three (Andrew 1964, Wallace 1967, Flegg 1971) have set the pattern which this one follows though with two variations. As foreshadowed by Flegg, records ...
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Reviews

01 March 1976
Comments Reviews Ducks of Britain and Europe. By M. A. Ogilvie. T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 206 pages; 15 pages of colour illustrations; numerous line drawings and maps. £5.00. For many ornithologists, and all wildfowlers, ducks have a special fa...
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Notes

01 March 1976
Comments Notes Feeding behaviour of Buffleheads From late December 1973 to early February 1974, in Florida, USA, I found small parties of Buffleheads Bucephala albeola in markedly different habitats. In the Gulf of Mexico, in deep water, they actively and com...
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Autumn summary

01 March 1976
Comments News and comment DIVERS TO RAPTORS   The largest gathering of Red-throated Divers Gavia stellata reported was 20 at Formby Point (Merseyside) on 19th October. Passage of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus was relatively small: the well-watched Seaton ...
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News and Comment

01 March 1976
Comments News and comment United Kingdom ratifies International Wetland Convention The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat--the Ramsar Convention--has already been treated in an earlier editorial (Brit, Birds, 69: 1-3). Two...
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Letters

01 March 1976
Comments Letters Lanceolated Warblers and vagrancy patterns Commenting on the records of Lanceolated Warblers Locustella lanceolata at Fair Isle (Shetland) on 22nd September 1973 and Out Skerries (also Shetland) on the same date, following one on Fair Isle on i...
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Notes

01 June 1938
Comments Notes As I have not been able to find any record of the HouseSparrow (Passer A. domesticus) excavating a nesting hole in rotten wood, such an occurrence seems to be worth recording. Both the cock and the hen excavated, both birds sometimes being in the confine...
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