Recent reports

01 October 1977
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers July and the first part of August; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to July. The first week of this period was very warm and the consequent increase...
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News and comment

01 October 1977
Comments News and comment Conference on European bird protection co-operation The Deutsche Bund für Vogelschutz has invited representatives of the major European bird protection organisations to discuss this autumn at Mainz their common position towards European Econom...
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Requests

01 October 1977
Comments Editorials Descriptions of hybrid wildfowl Hybrid wildfowl are most commonly to be seen in or near collections. The ordinary birdwatcher often regards them as aesthetically and conservationally undesirable, besides being uninteresting. It is, however, the...
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Letters

01 October 1977
Comments Letters Field guides and the appreciation of birds It is always good to find credit given where it is due. Hence I was glad to see Bruce Campbell's suggestion (Brit. Birds 70: 172) that W. B. Alexander's Birds of the Ocean (ig28) was probably the first...
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Notes

01 October 1977
Comments Notes Displays of Moorhen In bis paper on the breeding behaviour and biology of the Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (Brit. Birds 67: 104-115, 137-158), N. A. Wood described displays performed on water when intruders were near a nest containing eggs and y...
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Mystery photographs

01 October 1977
Comments Main paper Until the differences between Long-eared Asio otus and Short-eared Owls A. flammeus in the field were analysed by A. H. Davis and Robin Prytherch [Brit. Birds 69: 281-287, plate 49), flight identification of these species was seldom attempted, or a day...
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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...
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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...
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