News and comment

01 July 1967
Comments News and comment Annual report of British Section of I.C.B.P.--The recently published annual report of the British Section of the International Council for Bird Preservation provides evidence of much efficient work carried out during i0t. This and the previous annual repo...
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Reviews

01 July 1967
Comments Reviews The Shell Bird Book. By James Fisher. Ebury Press and Michael Joseph, London, 1966. 344 pages; 20 colour plates and 150 blackand-white illustrations. 25 s. The title of this book gives little help to the intending purchaser. Without knowing the author, he...
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Notes

01 July 1967
Comments Notes Call-notes of Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes in autumn.-- On 24th September 1966, at the Queen Mary Reservoir, Middlesex, I heard an unfamiliar call which I eventually traced to an apparently immature Slavonian Grebe Podkeps auritus. It persistently ut...
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Pied-billed Grebe in Somerset

01 July 1967
Comments Main paper an old record in Dorset in 1881, which has never been generally accepted, the first Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podkeps to be recorded in Britain was observed at Blagdon Lake, Somerset, in December 1963 (Brit. Birds, 58: 305-309). Twenty months later, in...
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Pied-billed Grebe in Yorkshire

01 July 1967
Comments Main paper O N 9TH J U N E 1965 Major C. Worrin saw a small grebe on Beaverdyke Reservoir, a private water near Harrogate, Yorkshire. The views he had were brief and unsatisfactory, but he suspected from its call that the bird was something unusual. On the following...
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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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