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01 July 1967 Comments News and comment Annual report of British Section of I.C.B.P.--The recently published annual report of the British Section of the International Council for Bird Preservation provides evidence of much efficient work carried out during i0t. This and the previous annual repo...

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01 July 1967 Comments Reviews The Shell Bird Book. By James Fisher. Ebury Press and Michael Joseph, London, 1966. 344 pages; 20 colour plates and 150 blackand-white illustrations. 25 s. The title of this book gives little help to the intending purchaser. Without knowing the author, he...

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01 July 1967 Comments Notes Call-notes of Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes in autumn.-- On 24th September 1966, at the Queen Mary Reservoir, Middlesex, I heard an unfamiliar call which I eventually traced to an apparently immature Slavonian Grebe Podkeps auritus. It persistently ut...

Pied-billed Grebe in Somerset

01 July 1967 Comments Main paper an old record in Dorset in 1881, which has never been generally accepted, the first Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podkeps to be recorded in Britain was observed at Blagdon Lake, Somerset, in December 1963 (Brit. Birds, 58: 305-309). Twenty months later, in...

Pied-billed Grebe in Yorkshire

01 July 1967 Comments Main paper O N 9TH J U N E 1965 Major C. Worrin saw a small grebe on Beaverdyke Reservoir, a private water near Harrogate, Yorkshire. The views he had were brief and unsatisfactory, but he suspected from its call that the bird was something unusual. On the following...

Studies of less familiar birds:145. White-rumped or Little Swift

01 July 1967 Comments Main paper I 2 T H J U N E 1967 a small swift with a white rump and a conspicuous white throat was seen by Dr. J. T. R. Sharrock at Cape Clear Bird Observatory, Co. Cork, and from the details noted seems likely to have been a White-rumped Swift Apus affinis, an Afri...

Changes in status among breeding birds in Britain and Ireland

01 July 1967 Comments Main paper Snowy Owl Nyetea seandiaca. The nesting of a pair in Shetland in the summer of 1967 was the culmination of a remarkable recent increase in the British records of this arctic owl. Previously known only as a rare winter vagrant, one to three have appeared i...

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01 January 1956 Comments Reviews By D . A. BANNERMAN and G. E. LODGE. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1955). V O L . I V . 259 p a g e s ; 29 plates. 45s. T H E present volume is a worthy successor to the preceding ones, but again whets the appetite for those which are to come. It covers t...

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01 January 1956 Comments Notes Harlequin Duck in Shetland.--While watching- waders at half tide at the Pool of Virkie, south Shetland, on the afternoon of 16th October 1955, we noticed a small dark duck which we believed was a female or first-winter Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrio...

Nest-Sanitation and Fledging of the Green Woodpecker

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper THERE is considerable conflict in the accounts of nest-sanitation by the Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis). Owen (1921) w r i t e s : " F r o m . n e s t s I have opened from time to time after the young have flown, it seems that generally the nest is kept...

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Pied-billed Grebe in Somerset

Pied-billed Grebe in Yorkshire

Studies of less familiar birds:145. White-rumped or Little Swift

Changes in status among breeding birds in Britain and Ireland

Reviews

Notes

Nest-Sanitation and Fledging of the Green Woodpecker

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