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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Reviews

01 October 1981 Comments Reviews The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration. By R. R. Baker. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1978. xvii + 1012 pages; numerous blackand-white photographs and line-drawings. £35.00.  Reviewers as a class must surely agree with Callimachus...
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Recent reports

01 October 1981 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records Dates in this report refer to July unless otherwise stated. The weather during the first six days was unsettled as eastward moving weather-fronts crossed the country. Rather warmer air from...
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News and comment

01 October 1981 Comments News and comment North Sea Bird Watch The second annual report of the North Sea Bird Watch, co-ordinated by Dr R. A. F. Cox, has just been published listing the birds recorded at fixed and mobile installations on the Phillips Petroleum Company concessions in 19...
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Announcements

01 October 1981 Comments Editorials Peterson Sound Guide discs and cassettes special offer This offer is still open this month. See pages 400-401 in September issue for details. Please resubscribe now If your subscription falls due in January and you have not alrea...
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