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Editorial: Birds and marine pollution

01 August 1972 Comments Editorials Press reactions to the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (see also 'News and comment' on page 359) were, perhaps un>avoidably, mixed. Many laid most stress on such features as the absence of the Russian and other governments, the tons of paper...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1971

01 August 1972 Comments Main paper Plates III and 49-12 This is the fourteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. As was announced in 'Changes in the editorial board' (Brit. Birds, 65: 1-3), P. A. D. Hollom has retired as chairman of the committee and we take this opportunity of expr...

Pellet-ejection by hand-reared Great Crested Grebes

01 August 1972 Comments Main paper There are few records of pellet-ejection by grebes. The habit has been observed in the Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis by the late Major Maxwell Knight (D. E. Hanson in lift.) and in the Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus and Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbu...

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...

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....

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...

Letters

01 June 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Having paid some attention to t h e manner in which t h e face of t h e Rook becomes bare, I m a y state t h a t in t h e main m y observations a n d specimens confirm Mr. Witherby's conclusions. But, with regard to this species n o t breeding in t...

Notes

01 June 1963 Comments Notes IN August I received a letter from Mr. A. C. Theron dated from " Riet Vallei, District Lindley, O.F.S." stating that a Swallow had been captured bearing a ring with my name and address. As Mr. Theron gave neither the number of the ring nor the date of cap...

Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 June 1963 Comments Main paper T H E annual article reporting progress for 1913 will appear, it is hoped, in the n e x t number. The following have kindly sent in subscriptions towards the expenses of the Marking Scheme since t h e last acknowledgment was made :-- Miss C. M. Acland, Mr...

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Editorial: Birds and marine pollution

Notes

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1971

Pellet-ejection by hand-reared Great Crested Grebes

Recent reports

News and comment

Letters

Letters

Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds.

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