News and comment

01 August 1969
Comments News and comment National farming and conservation conference It is fashionable to berate farmers for such practices as hedge removal, tree felling and the use of chemicals. Yet can a farm be managed in a way that pleases both economist and conservationist ? This was the ...
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Letters

01 August 1969
Comments Letters White-rumped Swifts in Morocco I was very interested in the recent correspondence concerning the White-rumped Swifts Apus caffer in southern Spain and particularly in P. G. C. Bmdenell-Bruce's suggestion that ornithologists visiting north-west Africa shou...
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Reviews

01 August 1969
Comments Reviews A Regional Guide to the Birds of Scotland. By W. Kenneth Richmond. Constable, London, 1968. 252 p a g e s ; frontispiece and 54 black-and-white photographic plates; 15 maps. 25s. Mr Richmond's Regional Guide will by now have been bought by many people and...
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Notes

01 August 1969
Comments Notes Overland migrations of Common Scoters The Handbook notes that Common Scoters Melanitta nigra occur on inland waters 'in small numbers irregularly but fairly often' and that such records 'are too frequent . . . during quite settled weather to be dismissed ...
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Recent reports

01 August 1969
Comments News and comment June often sees a continuation of the May pattern of southern vagrants, these occurring quite separately from arrivals of any numbers of commoner species. June 1969 was no exception, though there were rather fewer rarities of this kind than in some other ...
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Letters

01 August 1963
Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...
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Reviews

01 August 1963
Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...
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