Recent reports

01 October 1970 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report summarises the records for September 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. While an anticyclone persisted over the Azores until 17th, a series of depres...
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News and Comment

01 October 1970 Comments News and comment Annual Conference The Annual Conference of the British Trust for Ornithology was held at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 4th to 6th December 1970, and the wide range of subjects discussed demonstrated the many-sided outlook of the...
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Letter

01 May 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--One of our most important bird-reserves, Havergate Island, Suffolk, was severely damaged by the exceptional tide which swept down the East Anglian coast on February 1st. This island is not only unique in t h a t it contains the only British breedin...
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Review

01 May 1953 Comments Reviews KKVIKW : COUNTY BIKD KEI>OKT. North Staffordshire Field Club, Annual Report, 1951-52. Edited by H. V. Thompson. A short report on birds includes notes on duck on Copmere in 1951. Goosanders were present in some numbers from January to March and from Novem...
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Notes

01 May 1953 Comments Notes saw a Terek Sandpiper [Xenus cinereus) on Cowpen Marsh, Teesmouth, Co Durham. It was on the mud bordering; a flash behind the sea-wall originally with a substantial flock of Redshank (Tringa totanus) and Grey Plover (Squatarola squatarola), most of which ...
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