Notes

01 August 1972
Comments Notes Little Gull dip-feeding over upland fields On 22nd January 1972, at Barley-in-Pendle, Lancashire, I was fortunate to observe a firstwinter Little Gull Larus minutus following a flock of 24 Black-headed Gulls L. ridibundus over the lower slopes of Pendle H...
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Recent reports

01 August 1972
Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was remarkably cold, wet and windy--altogether a month of outstandingly bad weather. A shallow depression which drifted in at the end of April brought a pleasant May Day with a light south...
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News and comment

01 August 1972
Comments News and comment Environment Conference The much-vaunted United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm between 5 th and 16th June, and a great deal has already been written elsewhere about this jamboree. The conference began badly, for the U.S....
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Letters

01 August 1972
Comments Letters E y e colour of immature American Marsh H a w k Following the publication of my paper on a young American Marsh Hawk Circus cyaneus hudsonius near Cley, Norfolk, in the winter of 1957/58 {Brit. Birds, 64: 537-542), R. A. Richardson wrote to point out that...
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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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