Recent reports

01 January 1975
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records An exceptionally early breeding record of Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus came from Osterley Park (Greater London), where a nest contained a hatched chick on 26th February, i...
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Reviews

01 January 1975
Comments Reviews A Guide to the Birds of Wales. By David Saunders. Constable, London, 1974. 341 pages; 21 photographs; 17 maps. £2.50.   A book on Welsh birds is quite an event; David Saunders has chosen to write a guide to the best birding localitie...
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Notes

01 January 1975
Comments Notes Common and Black-headed Gulls flight-feeding over ragwort On the west coast of much of the Outer Hebrides is found the machair, a stretch of flat sandy soil used mainly for growing a mixed crop of rye and oats for animal fodder. Landward of thi...
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The new counties and regions

01 January 1975
Comments Editorials The new counties and regions On 1st April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the counties, county boroughs, boroughs and urban and rural districts of England and Wales were superseded, for administrative purposes, by a new network of co...
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Letters

01 June 1953
Comments Letters SIRS,--A good deal of interest, and even some feeling, seems to have been aroused by the question whether in the Channel Islands the English name "Armorican Warbler"/ instead of "Dartford Warbler", can be properly applied to the race found there, Sylvia u...
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Reviews

01 June 1953
Comments Reviews Twenty-fourth Report of the Devon Bird-Watching and Preservation Society, 1951. Recorder for birds--F.R.Smith. There are short reports on special enquiries : (a) Swift Migration.--Cold weather for 4 or 5 days in May caused such a remarkable disappearance...
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