News and comment

01 December 1966
Comments News and comment The B.O.U. 'Check-List' and 1966 records of rare birds.--The Records Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union hopes to complete the text of the new edition of its standard 'Check-List' by the end of March 1967. This publication will review more full...
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Request for Information

01 December 1966
Comments Editorials Status of Water Pipits in winter.--The discovery that Water Pipits Anthus s. spinohtta are now wintering regularly, perhaps in some numbers, on watercress beds in southern England (see pages 552-554 and plate 81a) has encouraged the British Trust for Orni...
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Letters

01 December 1966
Comments Letters Week-end bias, length of stay of rarities and proportion of rarities undetected Sirs,--Although the effect of 'week-end bias' (the increased watching at week-ends) is often commented on, there appear to be no figures to show exactly how marked it is. In a...
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Reviews

01 December 1966
Comments Reviews The Feathers and Plumage of Birds. By A. A. Voitkevich. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1966. xvi+335 pages; 74 textfigures and 21 tables. 45 s. One of the 'Biology Series Monographs', this book is unfortunate in its title which suggests a wide and generalise...
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Notes

01 December 1966
Comments Notes Heron eating House Sparrows.--Seton Gordon's recent note and the accompanying editorial comment on Herons Ardeatinereaeating birds {Brit. Birds, 59: 37) prompt me to record similar feeding behaviour by a captive Heron which came into my possession as a ju...
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Notice

01 March 1957
Comments Editorials Bird Observatories : new appointments. --· Mr. Kenneth Williamson, who has been Director of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory since it was established in 1948, is leaving the Observatory shortly. To replace Mr. Williamson, the Fair Is!e Bird Observatory- ...
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Letters

01 March 1957
Comments Letters T H E BIRDS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE SIRS,--Material is being- collected for a small book on the birds of Gloucestershire by H. H. Davis, C. M. Swaine and myself; we have already made considerable progress in assembling infprmation. W e would be grateful for fu...
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