May report

01 September 1976
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during May was generally warm with several hot spells, particularly in the second week, and was dominated by winds from a southerly quarter, which encouraged the overshooting of so...
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News and Comment

01 September 1976
Comments News and comment Endangered species The expected failure of the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Bill to become law in this Parliamentary session (Brit. Birds, 69: 156157) will allow conservationists and Government alike time to consider the reasoning behind passing...
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Letters

01 August 1935
Comments Letters SIRS,--There is a remarkable drop in t h e numbers of Swallows, Martins and Swifts in Shropshire this year. Several of t h e usual nesting places are void of birds. One or two pairs of Swifts nest regularly in t h e roof of m y house ; this year there are...
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Notes

01 August 1935
Comments Notes WHEN staying with Capt. J. A. R. Macdonald at Balranald, in North Uist, in spring, 1935, I discovered a large " roost " of Twites (Carduelis f. bensonorum). This was in a plantation of willow trees near Balranald House, about a hundred yards long by fort...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 August 1935
Comments Main paper Almondbank (Perth.), 20.8.34, Dumfries., --.12.34, by M. by Lord Mansfield. Williamson. Leswalt (Wigtown.), 6.3.34, by Loch Spynie (Moray.), J. Law. 16.2.35, by J- B. Dunbar. Ditto 9-3-34- Dovre, Opland, Norway, 2 9-4-35> by Zool. Mus., Oslo. Ditto 8.3.3...
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