Recent reports

01 August 1981 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not autnenticated records Dates in this report refer to May unless otherwise stated. The high-pressure region in mid Atlantic, which had caused the cold northerly weather of late April, declined by 5th, and ...
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News and comment

01 August 1981 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of the editors of British Birds Aulla Conference From 30th May to 1st June, the first Italian Ornithological Conference was held in Aulla, a small town at the base of the Nort...
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Requests

01 August 1981 Comments Editorials Readers' likes and dislikes Please help us to modify BB to suit your tastes by completing the readership questionnaire on the pull-out page in the centre of this issue. Wing-tagged Grey Herons A number of nestling Grey Herons Ardea cinerea in F...
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Announcements

01 August 1981 Comments Editorials Book offers It helps BB's finances if you order these books from us: Birdwatching in the Seventies by Ian Wallace (Macmillan) £7.95 post free. A Notebook of Birds--1907-1980 by Jim Flegg (Macmillan) £6.95 post free. Fr...
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Notes

01 August 1981 Comments Notes Predation on Manx Shearwaters by grey seals On most evenings during early August 1976, large flocks of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus fed on the tide race between South Bishop Lighthouse and Ramsey Island, Dyfed. Regular gathering...
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Announcements

01 December 1977 Comments Editorials Reduced subscription rates By using special forms obtainable through their local organisations, members of the following clubs and societies can now or will soon be able to subscribe to British Birds for £6.00 instead of the standard £8.00 pe...
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Letters

01 December 1977 Comments Letters Black-headed Gulls foot-paddling on grassland Joh. J. Frieswijk's letter (Brit. Birds 70: 266), recording frequent observations of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus foot-paddling on grassland in the Netherlands, contrasted with my note drawin...
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Reviews

01 December 1977 Comments Reviews Minsmere. Portrait of a Bird Reserve. By Herbert Axell. Hutchinson, London, 1977. 256 pages; 45 colour and 71 black-and-white photographs; many line-drawings and maps. £7.50 The Minsmere reserve of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds...
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Notes

01 December 1977 Comments Notes Great Crested Grebes breeding on rivers Bruce Campbell and James Ferguson-Lees (1971, A Field Guide to Birds' Nests) stated that Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus occasionally breed on stretches of slow-flowing rivers. In the 1970s, in Bu...
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