Recent reports

01 September 1970 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The following analysis deals with August 1970, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The weather was fairly settled until about 15 th and again from 25 th. During i6th-24th a serie...
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News and Comment

01 September 1970 Comments News and comment N e w Department of the Environment The Prime Minister revealed in October the government's new administrative set-up for environmental matters. Under this reorganisation of government departments, the Right Honourable Peter Walker becomes Secretary of St...
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Reviews

01 September 1970 Comments Reviews Where to Watch Birds in Britain and Europe. By John Gooders. Andre Deutsch, London, 1970. 299 pages; 25 black-and-white photographs; 27 sketch maps. 45s. In this successor to Where to Watch Birds (1967), whose scope was conrlned to Britain and Ireland, Jo...
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Letters

01 September 1970 Comments Letters Melanistic White-fronted Geese Further to my note on melanistic European White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons albifrons (Brit. Birds, 63: 131), Eckhart Kuyken has drawn my attention to his recent paper on melanism, albinism and other plumage variants in wi...
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Notes

01 September 1970 Comments Notes Common Scoters inland I was interested in the recent notes by Spencer (1969) and White (1970) on overland movements of Common Scoters Melanitta nigra, as not only The Handbook, but also Baxter and Rintoul (1953), Kennedy et al. (1955), Bannerman (1958), A...
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Recent reports

01 August 1970 Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers July 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. Rarities were few, but they included a number of surprising records. Among these were a Black-browed ...
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News and Comments

01 August 1970 Comments News and comment Coastal conservation A national plan for developing stretches of Britain's coastline for recreational and holiday uses, while preserving others, was proposed in two reports published by the Countryside Commission on ist October. One of these reports, enti...
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