Recent reports

01 February 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The following analysis deals with November 1970, and all dates refer to that month. The unsettled weather at the end of October continued, with depressions moving in from the Atlantic bringing...
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News and comment

01 February 1971
Comments News and comment Recent B.T.O. conferences The British Trust for Ornithology held two further successful conferences in January at Swanwick in Derbyshire, now the Trust's venue for national meetings. The first was the Ringing and Migration Conference during 8th-1oth Janua...
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Letters

01 February 1971
Comments Letters Elusive species and the B.T.O. Ornithological Atlas project Some species are proving to be difficult to locate in fieldwork for the Ornithological Atlas. In order to prepare full maps for these species, we cannot rely solely on fieldwork carried out purel...
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Reviews

01 February 1971
Comments Reviews Signals for Survival. By Niko Tinbergen and Hugh Falkus. Drawings by Eric Ennion. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970. 80 pages; 88 photographs; many coloured sketches. £2. Based on the B.B.C. film which won the Italia Prize for documentaries in 1969, thi...
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Notes

01 February 1971
Comments Notes We regret that, owing to the Post Office strike, it was impossible to send proofs of most of the short items that follow to the authors concerned (though we managed to get galleys of all the main papers delivered). The same applies to the notes on Great B...
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Letters

01 February 1952
Comments Letters SIRS,--In your September issue (antea, vol. xliv, p. 314) is a sight record by Mr. D. D. Harber oi a "Sooty Shearwater" seen off the Sussex coast, "some way out" to sea. The bird is described simply as " a large, all-black shearwater with a rather heavy b...
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