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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 ...

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...

Letters

01 August 1970 Comments Letters Partridges attacking injured young I was interested in G. V. Geiger's note 'Female House Sparrow attacking fledgling' {Brit. Birds, 62: 447-448). In my shooting days in Huntingdonshire, in the 1920's and 1930's, I witnessed three occurrences when an adult...

Reviews

01 August 1970 Comments Reviews Natural History of the Lake District. Edited by Canon G. A. K. Hervey and J. A. G. Barnes. Warne, London, 1970. 230 pages; 32 plates, 8 in colour; 3 maps; 20 line drawings. 60s. Lake District naturalists owe a considerable debt to the late Canon Hervey fo...

Notes

01 August 1970 Comments Notes Kestrel attempting to prey on Weasels On 27th October 1969, whilst driving along a narrow road near Peakirk, Northamptonshire, that was bordered on both sides by low hedges, I saw a female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus drop down on to the grass verge. It imme...

Studies of less familiar birds. 161. Booted Eagle

01 August 1970 Comments Main paper The Booted Eagle Hkramtus pennatus is a small eagle similar in size to a Buzzard Buteo buteo, but of slimmer build, with narrower wings and a longer tail. In flight its proportions are not unlike those of a Black Kite Mikus migrans, though the tail is squ...

New Palearctic bird sound recordings during 1969

01 August 1970 Comments Main paper Eleven discs or sets of discs were published in 1969 or first came to my notice during that year. They are dealt with in this fifth paper in the series (see also Boswall 1964, 1966, 1969a, 1969b). For the first time some of the reviews have been undertake...

Direct effects of rain on birds: a review

01 August 1970 Comments Main paper ...

Number and distribution of Long-tailed Ducks wintering in Europe