September and October report

01 February 1976
Comments News and comment The weather in early September was mainly anticyclonic but an airstream from the west and south-west took over, being particularly prominent from mid-month with gale force winds on several occasions. In October the picture changed, with many warm, dry ...
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News and Comment

01 February 1976
Comments News and comment Appointments to the Scientific Authority for Animals The Secretary for the Environment has appointed twelve members of the Scientific Authority for Animals to give advice on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fa...
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Reviews

01 February 1976
Comments Reviews Watching Sea Birds. By Richard Perry. Groom Helm, London, 1975. 230 pages; 16 line-drawings; 2 maps. £4.75. This is not really a new book but a reprinting of parts of two of the author's earlier books, both of which--Lundy Isle of Puffins (194...
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Notes

01 February 1976
Comments Notes Peregrine and Raven possibly contaminated by Fulmar oil With reference to R. A. Broad's paper on Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis oil contamination (Brit. Birds, 67: 297-301), the following observations of possible oiling may be of interest. On 10th J...
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Recent reports

01 September 1970
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The following analysis deals with August 1970, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The weather was fairly settled until about 15 th and again from 25 th. During i6th-24th a serie...
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News and Comment

01 September 1970
Comments News and comment N e w Department of the Environment The Prime Minister revealed in October the government's new administrative set-up for environmental matters. Under this reorganisation of government departments, the Right Honourable Peter Walker becomes Secretary of St...
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Reviews

01 September 1970
Comments Reviews Where to Watch Birds in Britain and Europe. By John Gooders. Andre Deutsch, London, 1970. 299 pages; 25 black-and-white photographs; 27 sketch maps. 45s. In this successor to Where to Watch Birds (1967), whose scope was conrlned to Britain and Ireland, Jo...
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Letters

01 September 1970
Comments Letters Melanistic White-fronted Geese Further to my note on melanistic European White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons albifrons (Brit. Birds, 63: 131), Eckhart Kuyken has drawn my attention to his recent paper on melanism, albinism and other plumage variants in wi...
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