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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Recent reports and news

01 January 1962
Comments News and comment [These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] Our last summary reviewed the occurrences of unusual Passerines and of all American species from early August to November, against a background of the more striking movements of common land ...
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Notes

01 January 1962
Comments Notes G o l d e n E a g l e a t t a c k i n g Reindeer.--With reference to the recent papers by Dr. K. Curry-Lindahl and Dr. G. Bergman on the food and feeding habits of birds of prey in Fenno-Scandia (Brit, Birds, 54: 297-306, 307-320), it may be of interest t...
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