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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1967

01 August 1968 Comments Main paper This is the tenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. Some 480 records for 1967 have been considered, an increase of about 120 (33%) on the final total for 1966 and approximately 180 (60%) more than in 1964. The proportion of records accepted is 82%,...

Letters

01 August 1968 Comments Letters Waxwing omission Sirs,--Owing to a regrettable oversight, our paper on 'Waxwings in Britain and Europe during 1965/66' (Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 97-118) failed to acknowledge the work of T. Ennis and the Northern Ireland Ornithologists' Club in sending us recor...

Recent reports

01 August 1968 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary covers June 1968 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. A few June reports were mentioned last month {Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 527-528) where they were particula...

News and comments

01 August 1968 Comments News and comment Industrial threats to the south-west.--The Western Morning News for 17th and 23rd May contained news of important industrial proposals likely to mar natural amenities in Devon and Cornwall. These proposals include examinations of six possible sites for po...

Notes

01 August 1968 Comments Notes Curlew's nest with seven eggs.--In April and May 1968 a pair of Curlews Nuwemus arquata were seen on at least six occasions by Mrs. R. Barnes and ourselves at a traditional breeding site in a marshy field near Purton, Wiltshire. On n t h May I.W.Y. flushe...

Dowitcher identification

01 August 1968 Comments Main paper During a long argument over the specific identity of a dowitcher Ldmnodromus sp. that frequented the Hayle estuary, Cornwall, from 30th October 1966 to 22nd April 1967 and was even trapped on one occasion, many observers found themselves confused by the i...

Recent Reports

01 June 1955 Comments News and comment Normally April and May provide us with quite a scattering of vagrants from southern and south-eastern Europe, but this year such wanderers seem to have been rather few. There were two reports of a Little Egret (Egretta gar^etta) on St. Mary's (Isles of Sc...

News and Comments

01 June 1955 Comments News and comment N e w Dictionary of Birds.--Work has been going on in earnest for over five years on a New Dictionary of Birds, a centenary enterprise of the British Ornithologists' Union. The formidable task of organising and editing has been undertaken by Sit Landsboro...

Requests for information

01 June 1955 Comments Editorials Effects of the severe winter of 1962-63.--The severe weather of last winter has probably had a considerable effect on the numbers of some species of birds, and an analysis of this is being undertaken by British Birds as for previous hard winters (e.g. 193...

Letters

01 June 1955 Comments Letters Uses of photography and sound-recording to reinforce sight records of unusual birds Sirs,--Your editorial on sight records of unusual birds (Brit. Birds, 55: 557-560), though comprehensive, omits reference to the value of reinforcing such records by photo...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1967

Letters

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Notes

Dowitcher identification

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