News and comment

01 May 1966
Comments News and comment Retirement of E . M. Nicholson from the Nature Conservancy.--By far the most significant development in the field of conservation in Britain in the years since the last war has been the establishment of the Nature Conservancy and its subsequent growth int...
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Letters

01 May 1966
Comments Letters The identification of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Sirs,--The letter from Dr. C. Suffern on the subject of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti (Brit. Birds, 56: 516-518) contains so many mis-statements that a detailed exposure would be tedious bot...
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Reviews

01 May 1966
Comments Reviews Project Mat: the conservation and management of temperate marshes, bogs and other wetlands. Volume i, Proceedings of the Mar Conference, compiled by the IWRB/MAR Bureau under Dr. L. Hoffmann; IUCN Publications new series, no. 3, 1964; 475 pages; F.25 or &...
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Notes

01 May 1966
Comments Notes Surface-feeding and up-ending by Goosander.--In December 1965 and early January 1966, at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset, one and sometimes two female Goosanders Mergus merganser regularly fed close to the shore in shallow water near the mouth of a small strea...
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Recent Reports and News

01 September 1960
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Notes

01 September 1960
Comments Notes Curlew Sandpipers wintering in Lancashire.--On 2nd January i960, I saw a Curlew Sandpiper {Calidris testacea) on the mud-flats of the Ribble Estuary at Lytham, Lancashire. O n 12th February there were three there and from then until April up to six were s...
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