Recent reports

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...
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News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...
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News and comment

01 March 1966 Comments News and comment National Nature Week.--Probably no further reminder is necessary that next month will see the Council for Nature's well publicised second National Nature Week, to be held from 23rd to 30th April. Local natural history societies, county naturalists' trusts...
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Letters

01 March 1966 Comments Letters Birds carrying dead nestlings Sirs,--With reference to the recent note by W. G. Luton on a House Sparrow Passer domesticus carrying a dead nestling, and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds, 5 8: 443), I am rather surprised that this practice s...
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Reviews

01 March 1966 Comments Reviews Advances i n the Study of Behavior. Edited by Daniel S. Lehrman, Robert A. H i n d e and Evelyn Shaw. Volume i . Academic Press, N e w York, 1965. 320 pages. 76s. This book is of wide general interest but contains two chapters, both of them by workers at ...
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Notes

01 March 1966 Comments Notes Feeding and resting behaviour of a Snowy Owl in Scilly.--During the five months ftom mid-October 1964 t o mid-March 1965 a female Snowy Owl Nyctea scandiaca visited Tresco, Isles of Scilly, for long periods at a time. She was also seen on various other Is...
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