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01 January 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records An exceptionally early breeding record of Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus came from Osterley Park (Greater London), where a nest contained a hatched chick on 26th February, i...

Reviews

01 January 1975 Comments Reviews A Guide to the Birds of Wales. By David Saunders. Constable, London, 1974. 341 pages; 21 photographs; 17 maps. £2.50. A book on Welsh birds is quite an event; David Saunders has chosen to write a guide to the best birding localitie...

Notes

01 January 1975 Comments Notes Common and Black-headed Gulls flight-feeding over ragwort On the west coast of much of the Outer Hebrides is found the machair, a stretch of flat sandy soil used mainly for growing a mixed crop of rye and oats for animal fodder. Landward of thi...

British bird-photographers. 17 J. F. Reynolds

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper John Reynolds cannot remember a time when he was not fascinated by natural history, though birds did not become his dominant interest until he was about ten. For some years he collected eggs but gave this up when, at fourteen, he began meeting birdwatc...

Viewpoint: How wild is our wildlife?

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper In this new feature we invite the personal views of guest writers on subjects of their own choosing in the fields of ornithology and conservation. Opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the editors of British Birds. Bruce Campbell...

Identification and ageing of Glaucous and Iceland Gulls

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper Despite papers on the two species by Kay (1947, 1950), the plumages and characteristics of the Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus and the Iceland Gull L. glaucoides are still given inadequate, confusing and sometimes contradictory treatment in more recent...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 1973

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper Although first formed in 1968, as a sub-committee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 1973 was the Rare Breeding Birds Panel's first year as an autonomous body. The panel is supported and funded jointly by British Birds, the Bri...

The new counties and regions

01 January 1975 Comments Editorials The new counties and regions On 1st April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the counties, county boroughs, boroughs and urban and rural districts of England and Wales were superseded, for administrative purposes, by a new network of co...

The use of mobile observers in the study of Patterns of migration

01 May 1951 Comments Main paper of the observation work on the migration of the Swift (Apus apus) dor e in the years 1947-50 has been carried out at fixed vantage points. In general, this method has resulted in the acquisition of useful statistical data, but inherent in it are several p...

The movements of Swifts in summer

01 May 1951 Comments Main paper 1950 was a good year for studying the movements of Swifts (Apus apus). Well over 20,000 were reported during the special watch held under the auspices of the British Trust for Ornithology. This covered the arrival period prior to May 15th, 1950. Another 2...

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