Letters

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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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News and Comment

01 January 1976
Comments News and comment Nightingale census The British Trust for Ornithology has announced (BTO Mews no. 76) that an attempt is to be made in 1976 to make a first full census of the Nightingale. This attempt to cover the species' entire range in southern Britain will ...
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News and Comment- New author

01 January 1976
Comments News and comment This feature was started in 1963 by R. P. Cordero, who three years later was compelled by the pressure of his activities to relinquish it to J. L. F. Parslow, who, in turn, on his appointment to the Nature Conservancy, handed over to Robert Hudson in M...
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Reviews

01 January 1976
Comments Reviews Watching Birds. By James Fisher, revised edition by Jim Flegg, T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1974. 159 pages; 14 black-and-white photographs, line illustrations. £2.80. Many birdwatchers have been guided in their first steps in ornitholo...
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