Recent reports

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals with most of the rarities and scarce migrants reported during March. The departure of winter visitors and arrival of spring migrants in both March and April will be covered ...
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News and comment

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment Conservation priorities Dr J. J. M. Flegg, Director of the British Trust for Ornithology, presents some personal, and slightly heretical, views on conservation in the current issue of Conservation Keview, the bulletin of the Society for the Promotion of N...
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Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Two pairs of Kestrels nesting on one electricity pylon On 15 th April 1971, in an area of reinstated opencast land at Staveley, Derbyshire, loud trilling calls drew my attention to four Kestrels Falco tinnunculus on an electricity pylon. There were two ol...
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Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Changes in Rarities Committee membership On 25 th March 1972 P. A. D. Hollom retired from the Rarities Committee. He had given it 13 years' unstinting service and had been chairman ever since it was set up in 1959; he was also the last of the founder memb...
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Reviews

13 March 2014
Comments Reviews The Status of Birds in Britain and Ireland. Prepared by the British Ornithologists' Union. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1971. 333 pages; 69 line-drawings. £3.00. A Species List of British and Irish Birds. Edited by Robert Hudson. B.T.O...
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Irish seabird islands

01 February 1980
Comments Main paper Although Ireland is not large in area, the mainland and associated islands have a coastline of over 4,000 km. There are just over 1,000 islands of a significant size (i.e. large enough to appear on the standard 1:126,720 Ordnance Survey maps in us...
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