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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Recent reports

01 September 1989
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 15th July to 10th August 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Egret Egretta garzetta Influx of 12-20 (probably about 15) on English south coast in early August; one at Tacumshin (Co....
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Monthly reports: April 1989

01 September 1989
Comments News and comment An anticyclone developed over Scandinavia during the first week, introducing cold Siberian air over Britain and Ireland and diverting the eastward-flowing, warmer Atlantic air to the south. These unsettled and warmer westerlies moved north for the seco...
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News and Comment

01 September 1989
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Desmond Nethersole-Thompson. When Desmond Nethersole-Thompson died in March this year, Britain (and, in particular, the Scottish Highlands) lost not only a great c...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1989
Comments Other It is very hard for a competition compiler to assess whether a particular puzzle is easy or difficult. He or she may think that the solution is glaringly obvious (or impossibly difficult), but the entrants may not spot the essential clue, or may see so...
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