Recent reports

01 November 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 15th September to 12th October 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Rostellan (Co. Cork), 9th-12fh Oct...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Letters

01 April 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. Miller Christy, in his very interesting letter in your last issue (p. 91), remarks t h a t I have n o t done justice t o the bird-life on Walthamstow Reservoirs, b u t I must point o u t t h a t m y note was only intended to record t h e nestin...
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Reviews

01 April 1963 Comments Reviews Aberdeen University Bird-migration Inquiry: First Interim Report (1909-12). By A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U. (Reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist, July, October, November, 1912 ; February, April and June, 1913.) THESE papers give details of t...
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Notes

01 April 1963 Comments Notes W E have received a good many schedules relating to these two inquiries (see Vol. VI., pp. 296-311, and Vol. VII, pp. 4-6), but we sincerely hope that many more of our readers will send in particulars. This should now be done without delay, and if the fo...
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On Incubation

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper As has previously been shown,* many birds belonging to various Orders commence incubation upon the laying of the first egg. This habit is undoubtedly of the utmost value to many species, saving the eggs from destruction by the numerous animals which devou...
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