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Flight identification of European raptors

01 November 1973 Comments Main paper In this, the final part of the series, we deal with the two remaining falcons, the three Acripiter hawks and the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus. These six species are divided into two groups--the kestrels and Black-winged Kite, and the Accipiters. ...

The breeding birds of a New Forest valley

01 November 1973 Comments Main paper The extensive heaths, unenclosed woodlands and valley bogs of the New Forest, Hampshire, are of outstanding scientific interest and collectively form the largest remaining tract of 'semi-natural' or 'unsown' vegetation in lowland Britain. The Forest wa...

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...

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...

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...

Obituary: Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander (1885-1965)

01 March 1966 Comments Obituaries As was briefly recorded in our January issue, Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander died at Parkstone, Dorset, on 18th December 1965. He was one of the new team of editors who took up the task of running British Birds after the early death of his friend B. W. Tu...

Recent reports: January and February 1966

01 March 1966 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated]records) This brief summary is primarily concerned with January and February 1966. Several American species included an American Wigeon Anas americana on the Moray Firth near Inverness from 30th Dece...

News and comment

01 March 1966 Comments News and comment National Nature Week.--Probably no further reminder is necessary that next month will see the Council for Nature's well publicised second National Nature Week, to be held from 23rd to 30th April. Local natural history societies, county naturalists' trusts...

Letters

01 March 1966 Comments Letters Birds carrying dead nestlings Sirs,--With reference to the recent note by W. G. Luton on a House Sparrow Passer domesticus carrying a dead nestling, and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds, 5 8: 443), I am rather surprised that this practice s...

Reviews

01 March 1966 Comments Reviews Advances i n the Study of Behavior. Edited by Daniel S. Lehrman, Robert A. H i n d e and Evelyn Shaw. Volume i . Academic Press, N e w York, 1965. 320 pages. 76s. This book is of wide general interest but contains two chapters, both of them by workers at ...

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Flight identification of European raptors

The breeding birds of a New Forest valley

Recent Reports

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander (1885-1965)

Recent reports: January and February 1966

News and comment

Letters

Reviews

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