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Recent reports - May

01 August 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was a month of unsettled weather, generally warm in most parts of Britain but with above average rainfall in some places. The presence during the first week of an area of high pressure ...

Notes

01 August 1973 Comments Notes Death of Great Crested Grebe in unusual circumstances On 26th June 1971, at Rostherne Mere National Nature Reserve, Cheshire, I observed a pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus in what appeared to be normal courtship display. One part...

Predation of migrant birds by gulls

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper Gulls Larus have a very diverse feeding ecology, but vertebrates form a significant part of the diet of some species (Tinbergen 1953). They are well known for their depredations on the eggs and young of colonial seabirds; they also attack and kill inju...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1972

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper This is the fifteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. The composition of the committee is now D. I. M. Wallace (chairman), F. R. Smith (honorary secretary), D. G. Bell, A. R. M. Blake, P. E. Davis, R. H. Dennis, P.J. Grant, R.J.Johns, R. A. Ri...

Current developments in the work of the Rarities Committee

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper During 1972, and more particularly at its annual meeting in March 1973, the Rarities Committee has reviewed many points of policy and practice. Conscious of the criticism that it periodically attracts, it remains anxious to conduct its work as openly a...

Recent reports

01 January 1971 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers October 1970, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. From 1st to 4th an anticyclone off Iberia and lows 'S' and 'U' moving rapidly across from Newfoundland broug...

News and Comment

01 January 1971 Comments News and comment A reprieve for Foulness? By now every interested person must know that the Roskill Commission enquiry into the siting of London's third airport has recommended the choice of Cublington in Buckinghamshire. This decision was not unanimous however; one membe...

Reviews

01 January 1971 Comments Reviews Die Schneehiihner. By E. O. Hohn. 84 pages. DM 7.50. Der Eichelhaher. By Andras Keve. 128 pages. DM 10.00. Raben- und Nebelkrahe. By Manfred Melde. n o pages. DM 8.20. Strandlaufer Eurasiens. By S. M. Uspenski. 78 pages. DM 6.40. Numbers 408, 410, 414 and...

Notes

01 January 1971 Comments Notes Male Pheasant accompanying female and brood On 8th June 1970, on the Airthrey Estate (University of Stirling), I came upon a pair of Pheasants Phasianus colchicus with small young. As I approached, the chicks hid, while the cock ran directy towards me fro...

Studies of less Familiar birds 162 Siberian Jay

01 January 1971 Comments Main paper The Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus is a bird of the great belt of coniferous forest which stretches from Scandinavia east through northern Russia and right across Siberia. It breeds in Norway, Sweden and Finland from Lapland south roughly to 61°N (Lov...

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Recent reports - May

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Predation of migrant birds by gulls

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1972

Current developments in the work of the Rarities Committee

Recent reports

News and Comment

Reviews

Notes

Studies of less Familiar birds 162 Siberian Jay

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