Recent Reports

01 November 1973
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals mainly with August, a month in which strong westerly winds in the first week brought in a number of American waders. However, anticyclonic conditions thereafter prod...
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Reviews

01 November 1973
Comments Reviews The Natural History of Cape Clear Island. Edited by J. T. R. Sharrock. T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1973. 208 pages; 18 photographs; many maps, diagrams and line-drawings. £3.00. Since 1959 Cape Clear has established itself as a major European bi...
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Notes

01 November 1973
Comments Notes Unusual behaviour of Black-necked Grebe From 6th to 15th October 1969, I daily observed a Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis in the harbour of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. When undisturbed by passing boats, it frequently dived and fed insid...
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Recent reports

01 July 1973
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned with March and April, with a separate analysis of arrivals of some commoner migrants and summer visitors. The first week of March was wet generally, but from about...
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News and comment

01 July 1973
Comments News and comment A.O.U. bird name changes The Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union assumes one function that its British counterpart does not--namely, the determination of official vernacular names. In the...
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Reviews

01 July 1973
Comments Reviews The Naturalist in the Isle of Man. By Larch S. Garrad. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972.234 pages; 29 photographs; 12 maps. £3.75. To one whose earlier and more leisurely days were spent dabbling in Manx natural history and folk-culture, ...
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