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01 November 1981 Comments Reviews 'Birdwatching in the Seventies. By Ian Wallace. Macmillan, London, 1981. 183 pages; 38 line-drawings. £7.95. The most ornithoiogically explored decade in British and Irish history', states Ian Wallace in this new book. Surely he is right...

Recent reports

01 November 1981 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report refers to August unless otherwise stated. High-pressure systems dominated the weather throughout the month and mainly dry, settled conditions prevailed. During the first week, s...

News and comment

01 November 1981 Comments News and comment Anti-shooting Since 1976, when it commissioned an independent study into shooting and angling under Lord Medway (now the Earl ofCranbrook), the RSPCA has been reviewing its position on these matters. Now, a year after receiving Cranbrook's report, it h...

Announcements

01 November 1981 Comments Editorials Peterson Sound Guide special offer Jeffery Boswall has provided us with the information that the 15 discs give 1,088 recordings of 585 species, with a running time of 12 hours; the 16 cassettes give 1,250 recordings of 612 species, with a runni...

Mystery photographs: Common Swift

01 November 1981 Comments Main paper One out of large numbers of Swifts Apus apus flying over a reservoir is feeding particularly close and, in the bright light, shows more plumage detail than the others. Dark blackish brown belly and underwingcoverts contrast with lighter flight fea...

Fifty years ago

01 November 1981 Comments Other 'Most of the estimates about the Hobby's status are vague and uncertain. During the last twenty years it has deserted several haunts, in others it is decreasing rapidly. The desertion of old strongholds affords a sad but interesting problem. The reason...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1980

01 November 1981 Comments Main paper This is the twenty-third report of the Rarities Committee. Details of Committee membership and other matters relating to its work during the year have already been published {Brit. Birds 74: 314). So far (and excluding Cory's Shearwaters), 593 records ...

Books for Christmas

01 November 1981 Comments Main paper If you want to give (or to receive) a book as a present for Christmas, the following would be among our current choices: *Bill Oddie 's Little Black Bird Book Bill Oddie (Eyre Methuen £4.95) *Birdwatcher's Yearbook 1982 John Pemberton (Bucking...

Letters

01 July 1959 Comments Letters B L A C K B I R D S F E E D I N G ON M A R I N E W O R M S S I R S , -- I can confirm the note by Mr. Roger Harkness (antea, p. 97) on Blackbirds (Turdus merula) feeding on marine worms, strangely enough from the same part of Hampshire--at Hill Head, whic...

Notes

01 July 1959 Comments Notes Duration of dives of Black-throated Diver.--In Sutherland on -25th May 1955 we were able to make continuous observations for nearly four hours on the diving of a Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica). T h e site was a loch half a mile wide and seven miles ...

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