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Continuing dangers to Peregrines from dieldrin

01 October 1973 Comments Main paper On 3rd February 1973 an adult male Peregrine Falco peregrinus was found dazed, with, little control of equilibrium, in upper Strathendrick, Stirlingshire. The bird ate little and died the next day. About 1st April 1973 an adult female Peregrine wa...

A review of population dynamics in birds

01 October 1973 Comments Main paper This review discusses some of the latest developments in research on population dynamics. A safe way to do this is to take the usual textbook approach, which describes the most important principles so far discovered in a scientific subject and summaris...

Recent Reports

01 October 1973 Comments News and comment An unusual report for the time of year was of a Great Northern Diver Gavia immer in full summer plumage at Blackpill (Glamorgan's on 16th. Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus were numerous in the North Sea during the month, and northerly movements were ...

News & Comments

01 October 1973 Comments News and comment Nature Conservancy reorganisation It is now over a year since the idea of splitting the Nature Conservancy's research functions from its management and advisory r&les was outlined in a Government White Paper, the proposal being that the Res...

Request for information

01 October 1973 Comments Editorials ...

Letters

01 October 1973 Comments Letters English bird names Although the editors disclaim responsibility for opinions expressed in 'News and comment', may I be allowed to join friendly issue with Robert Hudson about his remarks on the subject of English names of birds (Brit. Birds, 66...

Reviews

01 October 1973 Comments Reviews A Revised List of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Birds. By Edwin Cohen and John Taverner. Oxford Illustrated Press, 1972. vii + 180 pages; 32 photographs; one map and 42 linedrawings. £2.50. Shortly before he died in 1970, Edwin Cohen beg...

Notes

01 October 1973 Comments Notes Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall 'foot-paddling' to disturb organisms I was interested in the note by Philip A. Gregory and John Cantelo and in the accompanying editorial comments (Brit. Birds, 64: 76-77) on a Sabine's Gull Larus sabini persistentl...

Studies of less familiar birds 72: Lesser Spotted Eagle

01 October 1973 Comments Main paper Of all European eagles, the Lesser Spotted Eagle Aquila pomarina has the smallest world breeding range, the nominate race being confined to eastern parts of Germany, Poland, eastern Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, north-east Gre...

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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