Recent reports

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014
Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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News and comment

01 January 1982
Comments News and comment After six years as author and then senior author of 'News and comment', Peter Conder has requested a well-deserved rest. We and all BB readers will miss his expert, knowledgeable touch and keen eye for items of conservation importance. Thank you, Peter...
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Announcements

01 January 1982
Comments Editorials New feature: 'Points of view' We intend to start a new regular feature in British Birds in which readers can express their opinions on topical or general matters about which they feel strongly. The regularity of this feature will depend up...
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Fifty years ago

01 January 1982
Comments Other On three days during April 1921,1 had the pleasure of watching, often at very close quarters--and so clearly identifying---an Alpine Accentor, Prunella c. collaris, on the Headland at Seaford. The first meeting was on 7th April, when, as I walked the b...
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Letters

01 January 1982
Comments Letters Identification of Shy Albatross The chapter in Frontiers of Bird Identification on albatross identification (Warham et al. 1980) prompts me to record the following. On 26th January 1979, I studied several Shy Albatrosses Diomedea cauta that fle...
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