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01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...

News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...

Letters

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Requests for information

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Predation and protection at Dungeness Bird Reserve

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Obituary

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Reviews

01 May 1956 Comments Reviews By L. S. V. and U . M. VENABLES. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1955). 391 p a g e s ; 8 photographic plates; 3 maps. 30s. T H E islands of Shetland, meeting-place of northern and southern elements in our fauna, and maritime outpost of a region where strik...

Notes

01 May 1956 Comments Notes amount of time was spent in 1955, and to a lesser extent in 1954, in an attempt to plot the breeding distribution of Red-backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio) in parts of the New Forest, Hampshire. It is frequently cited in the literature that this bird is bot...

The Annual Mortality of the Blue Tit in different parts of its range

01 May 1956 Comments Main paper FIRST-YEAR Blue Tits (Parus caeruleus) can be distinguished from older birds by inspection of their wing-coverts. In first-year birds the bastard wing and primary coverts, and sometimes one or more outer secondary coverts, are dull greenish blue, contrast...

Some Photographic Studies of the Pink-footed Goose

01 May 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 9-16) T H E Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) breeds in east Greenland {between 68Â° and 76Â° N . ) , Iceland and Spitsbergen and is generally held to be the westernmost form of the Bean Goose (Anser arvensis), of which there are severa...

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