News and Comment

01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...
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Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...
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Letters

01 June 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Council of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club have pleasure in intimating that a "Rare Birds' Protection" Committee has been formed to work in close conjunction with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and the following have kindly co...
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Books Received

01 June 1951 Comments Main paper West Midland Bird Distribution Survey.--Compiled and produced by C. A. Norris. (Published for Private Circulation). A Book of Ducks.--By Phyllis Barclay-Smith. (Penguin Books, 3/6). Animal Evolution.--By G. S. Carter. (Sidgwick & Jackson, 30/-). Zoogeogra...
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Reviews

01 June 1951 Comments Reviews THE advent of this society adds one more to the long list of naturalists banded together to study the fauna and flora of their own locality. It is a very welcome addition, for the extreme eastern corner of Kent has long lacked an association of naturalist...
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Notes

01 June 1951 Comments Notes Tebbutt's note on birds becoming " c a u g h t u p " in flocks of other species (antea, vol. xliii, p . 332) prompts me to record the following observations, which were made some years ago when I was living near Bury, Lancashire. Mr. Tebbutt gives exampl...
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