Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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Recent reports

01 April 1988 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 15th February to 20th March 1988. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii St Ives (Cornwall), 15th-27th February; Filey (North Yorkshire), 10th-14th March. Garganey Anas querquedula Port Meadow (Oxfordshire), from 15th M...
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Monthly reports: December reports

01 April 1988 Comments News and comment Cold anticyclonic weather dominated the first half of the month, but persistent cloud cover kept overnight temperatures above freezing. Winds were light, coming from north to southeasterly directions. From 15th, the temperature rose, and warm, set...
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News and Comment

01 April 1988 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. The Flows give and take. The Scottish Office announced in January 1988 that 40,000 ha of the Flow Country in Caithness and Sutherland should be given over to conif...
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Reviews

01 April 1988 Comments Reviews Highlight the Wild: the art of the Reid Henrys. By Bruce Henry. Palaquin Publishing, Hartley Wintney, 1986. 103 pages; 40 colour plates; 66 black-and-white plates. £20.00. This unusual book by Bruce Henry can be recommended for its richness of il...
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