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01 May 1967 Comments News and comment "Torrey Canyon* and after.--Sooner or later the wrecking of a jumbo-tanker had to happen; now it has. Understandably, the first concern of government, press and public alike when the Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones reef was for the holiday ...

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01 May 1967 Comments Reviews The Bird Faunas of Africa and its Islands. By R. E. Moreau. Academic Press, London, 1966. 424 pages; 65 figures (including many maps and a number of habitat photographs). 100s. Reg Moreau--as he is known even to those who have not the pleasure of knowing ...

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01 May 1967 Comments Notes Winter breeding of Shags.--On 19th February 1966, on an islet off Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey, I found eight nests occupied by Shags Pbalacrocorax aristotelis and could see eggs in two of the lower ones. By 27th February heavy seas had washed away all exce...

Birds in Ireland during 1963-65

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper years 1960-62 were reviewed in January 1964 by D . G. Andrew (Brit. Birds, 57: 1-10). The information that he summarised came mainly from the Irish Bird Reports which have continued to appear promptly under the expert hand of Major R. F. Ruttledge. T h e ...

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper annual selection of the best contemporarywork by British bird-photographers. The final choice was particularly difficult this year because it had to be made from a preliminary selection of no less than 67 prints of a comparably high standard. It is sad th...

Changes in status among breeding birds in Britain and Ireland

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper Arctic Skua Stercararius parasiticus. Somewhat decreased 19th century, due to human disturbance; somewhat increased in 20th century where protected (A & L). Increasing Orkney and Fair Isle; little information from elsewhere. Not scarce; restricted to Scot...

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01 August 1939 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory. Report for 1938. As this interesting report shows, Mr, R. M. Lockley is gradually building up at Skokholm a bird observatory which is doing valuable work. A large number of people visited the island during t h e year and helped ...

Notes

01 August 1939 Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

01 August 1939 Comments Obituaries (1879-1939-) ornithology has suffered a severe loss in the death of the Rev. E. U. Savage on June 23rd, 1939, at the age of sixty. Since ill health forced him to retire two years ago, he had lived at Staveley, Westmorland, and before that he held livings...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper LEACH, HITHERTO in this series of articles we have thought it best to collect together all records of ringed birds, which have moved either from this country to abroad or from abroad to this country. This has meant a certain amount of duplication as the ...

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News and comment

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Birds in Ireland during 1963-65

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

Changes in status among breeding birds in Britain and Ireland

Review

Notes

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

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