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01 May 1966 Comments News and comment Retirement of E . M. Nicholson from the Nature Conservancy.--By far the most significant development in the field of conservation in Britain in the years since the last war has been the establishment of the Nature Conservancy and its subsequent growth int...

Letters

01 May 1966 Comments Letters The identification of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Sirs,--The letter from Dr. C. Suffern on the subject of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti (Brit. Birds, 56: 516-518) contains so many mis-statements that a detailed exposure would be tedious bot...

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01 May 1966 Comments Reviews Project Mat: the conservation and management of temperate marshes, bogs and other wetlands. Volume i, Proceedings of the Mar Conference, compiled by the IWRB/MAR Bureau under Dr. L. Hoffmann; IUCN Publications new series, no. 3, 1964; 475 pages; F.25 or &...

Notes

01 May 1966 Comments Notes Surface-feeding and up-ending by Goosander.--In December 1965 and early January 1966, at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset, one and sometimes two female Goosanders Mergus merganser regularly fed close to the shore in shallow water near the mouth of a small strea...

More examples of the best recent work by British bird photographers

01 May 1966 Comments Main paper work by British bird-photographers. As always, the choice has been difficult, but once again, other things being equal, some preference has been given t o photographs of species which have n o t previously appeared in the series and also to ones by new or...

The bird population succession at Newborough Warren

01 May 1966 Comments Main paper N E W B O R O U G H W A R R E N is a sand-dune system of some 3,000 acres (about 1,200 hectares) situated on the south-west coast of Anglesey. Half of the area has been declared a National Nature Reserve, while the other half is a state forest. Apart from...

The winter feeding of the Purple Sandpiper

01 May 1966 Comments Main paper studies of the feeding habits of shore birds have largely been concerned with a bird species and one prey species at a time. A series of papers by Dewar (1908, 1910, 1913) described the predation of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostrakgus on mussels Mytilus e...

Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper I N THE STRAIGHT-FORWARD, descriptive natural history of any species, the food which it eats is an obvious item. T h e century and a half of scientific ornithology which has followed The Natural History of Selborne has seen the compilation of qualitative ...

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper THE following observations were made in late June and early July 1952-56, round Westleton in Suffolk, where Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) breed not uncommonly on sandy heaths similar to those where I studied the species fifty miles N . N . W . , round...

Letters

01 July 1957 Comments Letters T H E C O L L E C T I O N O F R E C O R D S F O R ANALYSIS S I R S , -- Y o u r correspondent, Mr. T. C. Smout, raises issues of fundamental importance (antea, vol. xlix, pp. 287-288). If a paper is put forward for publication in a scientific form and pur...

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More examples of the best recent work by British bird photographers

The bird population succession at Newborough Warren

The winter feeding of the Purple Sandpiper

Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

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