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Exceptional mortality of Shags and other seabirds caused by paralytic shellfish poison

01 September 1968 Comments Main paper The Northumberland coast supports large colonies of seabirds, the majority of which nest on the Fame Islands. The Puffin Fratercula arctica is the most numerous and there are also many terns Sterna spp., Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla, Lesser Black-backed Gu...

Recent reports

01 September 1968 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This mainly concerns July 1968, but the last section includes news of a remarkable invasion in August; a few other July records were mentioned in the preceding summary (Brit. Birds, 61: 378-...

News and comments

01 September 1968 Comments News and comment European Conservation Year 1970.--The Council of Europe, consisting of 18 member nations, has designated 1970 as European Nature Conservation Year. This, it is hoped, will demonstrate to the European public the co-operative efforts of these member nations...

Letters

01 September 1968 Comments Letters Voice of female Little Crake confused with Baillon's Crake Sirs,--From 30th April to 30th June 1948 two or three crakes were regularly heard at Hjalstaviken, about 80 kilometres north-west of Stockholm, Sweden (T. Lundquist, 1950, Vdr Fdgelvarld, 9: 33-39...

Reviews

01 September 1968 Comments Reviews Birds of Norfolk. By M. J. Seago. Jarrold, Norwich, 1967. 148 pages; 66 photographs in colour. 45s. This slim volume is made most attractive by an excellent series of colour photographs illustrating a total of 64 species. The main part of the text is devo...

Request for information

01 September 1968 Comments Editorials Hybrid Herring X Lesser Black-backed Gulls.--During 1968, on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, about ten young were reared by mixed pairs of Herring Gulls Larus argentatus and Lesser Black-backed Gulls L. fuscus. These young, which resembled juvenile Lesser Black-...

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