September and October report

01 February 1976
Comments News and comment The weather in early September was mainly anticyclonic but an airstream from the west and south-west took over, being particularly prominent from mid-month with gale force winds on several occasions. In October the picture changed, with many warm, dry ...
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News and Comment

01 February 1976
Comments News and comment Appointments to the Scientific Authority for Animals The Secretary for the Environment has appointed twelve members of the Scientific Authority for Animals to give advice on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fa...
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Reviews

01 February 1976
Comments Reviews Watching Sea Birds. By Richard Perry. Groom Helm, London, 1975. 230 pages; 16 line-drawings; 2 maps. £4.75. This is not really a new book but a reprinting of parts of two of the author's earlier books, both of which--Lundy Isle of Puffins (194...
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Notes

01 February 1976
Comments Notes Peregrine and Raven possibly contaminated by Fulmar oil With reference to R. A. Broad's paper on Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis oil contamination (Brit. Birds, 67: 297-301), the following observations of possible oiling may be of interest. On 10th J...
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Recent reports

01 February 1968
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary mainly concerns December, which is generally a quiet month. This year, too, most observers kept away from agricultural land because of the foot-andmouth epidemic and so it is no...
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News and comments

01 February 1968
Comments News and comment Conference on local bird reports.--About 70 editors and editorial representatives of some 50 local and regional bird reports attended a conference held at Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 15th to 17th September 1967. The conference was only the second of its ki...
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Request for information

01 February 1968
Comments Editorials Distribution and numbers of Collared Doves.--In 1965 Robert Hudson traced the spread of the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto in Britain and Ireland from the time of the first breeding record in 1955 up to the end of 1964 {Brit. Birds, 58: 105-139). He ...
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Letters

01 February 1968
Comments Letters Width of tail-band of immature Mediterranean Gulls Sirs,--As the plumage of immature Mediterranean Gulls Larus melanocephalus was described in some detail by P. J. Grant and R. E. Scott (Brit. Birds, 60: 365-368), it seems a pity that they did not mention...
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