Recent reports

01 December 1976
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers September and the first part of October. Except when otherwise stated, all dates refer to September. SEABIRDS The large numbers of shearwaters present off...
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Spring summary

01 December 1976
Comments News and comment We received little information on sea-passage from coastal stations, but the following movements may be of interest. At Portland a total of 3,194 Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus passed between 2nd and 12th May. Figures for Common Scoters Melanitta n...
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News and Comment

01 December 1976
Comments News and comment Skokholm Bird Observatory to close The sad news has reached me that Skokholm Bird Observatory, Dyfed, is to close. The observatory was the first to be established in Britain, in 1937, by R. M. Lockley, whose work on the Manx Shearwater was one ...
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Request for assistance

01 December 1976
Comments Editorials Bird Photograph o ftheYear  Readers are reminded that the closing date for receipt of entries for this competition (black-and-white prints or colour transparencies) is 5th January 1977. Interest and originality, as well as technical excell...
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Letters

01 December 1976
Comments Letters Migration in the doldrums D. I. M. Wallace expressed an atavistic 'Viewpoint' (Brit. Birds, 68: 202-203) that it was time for 'a resumption of migration studies related to conservation', and suggested setting up a working party to promote it. T...
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Reviews

01 December 1976
Comments Reviews A Guide to Birds of the Coast. By C. A. Gibson-Hill, revised by Bruce and Robert Campbell and Robin Prytherch. Constable, London, 1976. 388 pages; 25 black-and-white photographs; numerous line drawings and distribution maps. £3.50. The origina...
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Notes

01 December 1976
Comments Notes Diving rates of Great Northern Diver An adult Great Northern Diver Gavia immer was present at Chew Valley Lake, Avon, in November 1974, when the following observations, mainly concerning the bird's diving behaviour, were made. Preliminary obser...
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