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01 April 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records December was the mildest for many years, dominated by westerly weather from the Atlantic. An anticyclone which persisted to the south of Britain caused depressions to move across on...

News and comment

01 April 1975 Comments News and comment Waterway vandalism It was with considerable alarm that naturalists learned recently that the Severn-Trent Water Authority proposed to introduce a new byelaw compelling owners of lands fronting a river to cut down all trees, shrubs, reeds and ot...

Announcement by the Rarities Committee

01 April 1975 Comments Editorials The formal transfer of secretarial duties in the committee will take place on ist May 1975. On and after that date, all rare bird records should be sent to J. N. Dymond, R.S.P.B., The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 2DL. It would be appreciated if this...

Letters

01 April 1975 Comments Letters Effects of agricultural change on birds I have found the correspondence between Derek Barber, and Dr R. K. Murton and N. J. Westwood {Brit. Birds, 67: 395-396, 485-487), of considerable interest, for I strongly suspect that hedgerows have,...

Reviews

01 April 1975 Comments Reviews Ocean Wanderers. The migratory sea birds of the world. By Ronald M. Lockley. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1974. 168 pages; 9 colour and 39 black-and-white photographs; 22 maps. £4.50. This picture is painted on a broad canvas. The author...

Notes

01 April 1975 Comments Notes Kestrel apparently attempting to catch Goldfish In 1974 a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus nested in a beech coppice near my house near Blackboys, East Sussex, and frequently hunted for beetles and mice in the ha-ha which divides my garden from a fiel...

Studies of breeding Sandwich Terns

01 April 1975 Comments Main paper It is opportune that a series of Jan van de Kam's wonderful photographs of Sandwich Terns Sterna sandvicensis at a Dutch breeding colony (plates 16-23) should appear at a time when the European population is threatened at both ends of its range. The ef...

Aspects of social behaviour in the Buzzard

01 April 1975 Comments Main paper This paper is written as a preliminary to an account (in prep.) of the observed spacing of Buzzards Buteo buteo on Speyside, and describes social behaviour which we considered relevant to spacing. We have not quantified the observations. Forms of behav...

Notes

01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

Report of the bird-ringing committee

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper THIS is the tenth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The composition of the Committee remains the same...

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Announcement by the Rarities Committee

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Studies of breeding Sandwich Terns

Aspects of social behaviour in the Buzzard

Notes

Report of the bird-ringing committee

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