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01 May 1976 Comments Letters The continuing slaughter of birds of prey in Britain Your recent editorial (Brit. Birds, 68: 481-483) on the World Conference on Birds of Prey, organised by the International Council for Bird Preservation in Vienna in October 1975, stimulates t...

Reviews

01 May 1976 Comments Reviews Flamingos. Edited by Janet Kear and Nicole Duplaix-Hall. T, & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 246 pages; seven colour plates; 48 black-and-white plates; numerous drawings, maps and diagrams, £8.00. In July 1973 an international gathering ...

Notes

01 May 1976 Comments Notes Reactions of Goldeneyes to boating Until 1966 Chasewater (Cannock Reservoir), Staffordshire, held fewer than ten wintering Goldeneyes Bucephala clangula. In subsequent winters higher numbers have been recorded. Although the reasons for this inc...

Breeding biology of Sanderlings in north-east Greenland

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper In the first detailed account of breeding Sanderlings Calidris alba, Manniche (1910) reported that only females incubated and attended the chicks. Other observers did not always agree, because both males and females were shot at the nest and one or two...

View: A price for conservation?

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper Colin Tubbs is an Assistant Regional Officer for the Nature Conservancy Council and author of 'The New Forest--an ecological history' {ig6g) and 'The Buzzard' (1974)- His research interests include interpretation of the structure of woodland and other ...

Notes

01 June 1946 Comments Notes WITH reference to Lt.-Col. B. H. Ryves's statement (antea, p. 43) that all species of buntings are absent in the Scillies, it may be of interest to record that my husband and I saw and heard several Corn-Buntings {Emberiza calandra) in song on St. Agnes,...

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper Photographed 6y H. N. SOUTHERN. (Plates 21-22). T H E Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) is one of the birds of Western Europe of which there is no good evidence t h a t it has occurred in the British Isles, though Donovan's History of British ...

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the ninth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence by H. F. Witherby published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The Committee has been reconsti...

Birds of inner London

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper D U R I N G the year under review (1945), there has been one new record for Inner London, viz., t h e White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons), a flock of this species having been seen by Mrs. Rait Kerr crossing over Lords on February 17th. Mr. Holte Macpher...

Further Notes on the Breeding of Blue Tits

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper IN a previous paper (Vol. xxxviii, p. 205), I have given the results of some of my observations on the feeding of nestlings of the Blue Tit (Pants cmmleus obscurus). In 1945, I decided to extend the scope of the investigation to include, if possible, such...

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Breeding biology of Sanderlings in north-east Greenland

View: A price for conservation?

Notes

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

Birds of inner London

Further Notes on the Breeding of Blue Tits

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