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01 October 1972 Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper ...

Editorial: Field guides and identification

01 October 1972 Comments Editorials The recent publication of The Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East, by Hermann Heinzel, Richard Fitter and John Parslow (reviewed on pages 445-448), has met with a wide range of reactions, both favourable and unfavourable. Thi...

Recent reports—July

01 October 1972 Comments Recent Reports ...

Recent reports: End of August to mid November

01 December 1965 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the two and a half months from the end of August to mid-November and thus follows on after the one published in the September issue {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 3...

News and comment

01 December 1965 Comments News and comment World Wildlife Fund's report.--The World Wildlife Fund has just issued its first report, entitled The Launching of the Nest Ark (published by Collins, and obtainable at 13s. fid, post free from 2 Caxton Street, London, S.W.i, or any bookseller). Edited by...

International ornithological Congress Oxford, 24th to 30th July 1966

01 December 1965 Comments Editorials The broad details of the XIV International Ornithological Congress were announced earlier this year (Brit. Birds, 58: 156-157). Preparations for it and the preceding week's cruise round Scottish bird-islands from 16th to 22nd July are now well advanced. B...

Letters

01 December 1965 Comments Letters 'The original misidentification of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbier' Sirs,--The letter from R. H. Charlwood and D. D . Harber (Brit. Birds, 58: 225-227) contains a garbled account of what happened at Titchfield Haven, Hampshire, in connection with the identi...

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