News and comment

01 October 1965
Comments News and comment Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve.--The Nature Conservancy have purchased 1,216 acres of sand dunes between Ainsdale and Formby on the Lanca shire coast and the area has now been statutorily declared as the Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Re...
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Letters

01 October 1965
Comments Letters T h e w i n g pattern of the female Great Bustard Sirs,---In his recent article on 'Flight patterns of the European bus tards' (Brit. Birds, 58: 43-47), Philip J. Stead wrote with reference to the Great Bustard Otis tarda: 'The wing patterns of both sexes...
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Notes

01 October 1965
Comments Notes Turnstone feeding on dead sheep.--On ist March 1964,8 day of heavy mist, we were walking along the shore at Steart Point, Somer set, when we came across the carcase of a sheep. A Carrion Crow Corvus corone and two Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinttsfl...
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Reviews

01 April 1952
Comments Reviews Proceedings of the Xth International Ornithological Congress, Uppsala, June, 1950. "(Almquist & Wicksell, Uppsala, Sweden, 1952. Price Sw. Kr. 35, or £2 8s. 3d. Obtainable direct from Prof. S. Horstadius, Zoologiska Institutionen, Uppsala). T H I S ...
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Notes

01 April 1952
Comments Notes Song-Thrush nesting in a Monkey-Puzzle Tree.--In connexion with the note (antea, p . 287) on a Mistle-Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) nesting in a Monkey Puzzle tree, it may be of interest to record that on May 6th, 1946, at Oxted, Surrey, I found a nest of a...
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