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01 August 1967 Comments News and comment Wildfowl counts in Northern Ireland.--One of the first tasks to be tackled by the Northern Ireland Ornithologists" Club when it was formed in October 1964 was the planning of a series of wildfowl counts in the Lough Neagh basin, along the lines of those o...

Letters

01 August 1967 Comments Letters Red-headed Buntings in Britain and Ireland Sirs,--D. I. M. Wallace's recent review of 'Birds in Ireland during 1963-65' (Brit Birds, 60: 205-213) refers to the sixth and seventh Irish records of the Red-headed Bunting Emberi^a bruniceps in Co. Cork in Jun...

Notes

01 August 1967 Comments Notes Hirundines taking winged insects from the surface of the sea.--With reference to another note of mine on Swallows Hirundo rustica taking winged insects from the surface of the sea off Tresco, Isles of Scilly, in September 1958 {Brit. Birds, 5 3: 200), I s...

Population changes of some Common birds in gardens

01 August 1967 Comments Main paper organised by the British Trust for Ornithology, now produces annual figures for the population levels of most of the common species of land birds in Britain. Most of the census areas consist of farmland, with fewer areas of woodland and other habitats; an...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1966

01 August 1967 Comments Main paper T H I S IS THE NINTH annual report of the Rarities Committee and has involved consideration of 356 records for 1966, an increase of 23 on the final total for 1965 and of 70 on that for 1964. The proportion of records accepted was 73%, thus maintaining the...

Grey Wagtail Passage in Britain in 1956-60

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper cinerea recorded at various of the coastal bird observatories in September 1959 (Williamson 1959), which focused attention on this species, requests for information were published in British Birds (53: 140 and 54: 131) and News for Naturalists (2: 15). Th...

Birds in Ireland during 1960-62

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper annual reports of the Rarities Committee (see Brit. Birds, 54: 174). The advantages of having all records of rarities within these islands considered by one body and collected together into one report are obvious, and it is very much to be hoped that a ha...

Notes

01 January 1964 Comments Notes Fulmar incubating eggs of Herring Gull with its own.--On 27th May 1963 I was walking along a cliff top four miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, when I surprised a Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis off its nest. As it flew, a brown egg rolled out and smashed on t...

Herd Composition and Dispersion in The Whooper Swan

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper Park, Banffshire, it became apparent that, within the herd that gathered during the autumn passage, swans in family parties (i.e. adults accompanied by young birds) were less wary and fed more widely spread out along the narrow part of the loch than swans...

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Population changes of some Common birds in gardens

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Grey Wagtail Passage in Britain in 1956-60

Birds in Ireland during 1960-62

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Herd Composition and Dispersion in The Whooper Swan

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