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01 November 1974 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records August was dominated by weather from the Atlantic, a series of depressions crossing Britain and producing generally cool and unsettled conditions with temperatures below average and rainfal...

News and comment

01 November 1974 Comments News and comment Rookery census The last national survey of the British Rook population was undertaken by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1945; much data was gathered (and is still on file), though rather little was published. Various local surveys carried...

Letters

01 November 1974 Comments Letters Oiled seabirds successfully cleaning their plumage I was interested to read the note by T. R. Birkhead, Clare Lloyd and P. Corkhill concerning the successful cleaning of oiled plumage by seabirds (Brit. Birds, 66: 535-537). Instances of this be...

Reviews

01 November 1974 Comments Reviews The Cairngorms. Their Natural History and Scenery. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson and Adam Watson. Collins, London, 1974. 286 pages; 7 colour and 36 black-and-white photographs; 17 maps and text-figures. £3.50. Everything about the Cairn...

Notes

01 November 1974 Comments Notes Kestrel taking prey from Short-eared Owl On 20th January 1974, Mrs M. Perkins and I watched a Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus hunting in the usual manner over rough grass on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. It dropped into the grass, rose with a small...

Obituaries: Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn, MA (1913-1974), Ludwig Koch, MBE (1881-1974)

01 November 1974 Comments Obituaries Professor M. F. M. Meiklejohn died in a Glasgow hospital on 14th May 1974, after a short illness. Maury Meiklejohn was of Scottish parentage and ancestry, from a scholastic family noted for intellectual ability. His grandfather, J. M. D. Meikle...

The birds of Regent's Park, London, 1959-68

01 November 1974 Comments Main paper Regent's Park has been visited by London ornithologists for at least 130 years. Since 1945 it has been adopted as a place of regular observation by many observers, notably Stanley Cramp who, in 1945 and 1947, made the first systematic study of the bird...

Review

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...

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August reports

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Obituaries: Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn, MA (1913-1974), Ludwig Koch, MBE (1881-1974)

The birds of Regent's Park, London, 1959-68

Review

Notes

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

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