Recent reports

01 October 1970 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report summarises the records for September 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. While an anticyclone persisted over the Azores until 17th, a series of depres...
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News and Comment

01 October 1970 Comments News and comment Annual Conference The Annual Conference of the British Trust for Ornithology was held at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 4th to 6th December 1970, and the wide range of subjects discussed demonstrated the many-sided outlook of the...
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Recent reports

01 August 1970 Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers July 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. Rarities were few, but they included a number of surprising records. Among these were a Black-browed ...
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News and Comments

01 August 1970 Comments News and comment Coastal conservation A national plan for developing stretches of Britain's coastline for recreational and holiday uses, while preserving others, was proposed in two reports published by the Countryside Commission on ist October. One of these reports, enti...
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Letters

01 August 1970 Comments Letters Partridges attacking injured young I was interested in G. V. Geiger's note 'Female House Sparrow attacking fledgling' {Brit. Birds, 62: 447-448). In my shooting days in Huntingdonshire, in the 1920's and 1930's, I witnessed three occurrences when an adult...
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