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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Letters

01 September 1954
Comments Letters SIRS,--I read with great interest the paper by Desmond Morris (antea, pp. 33-49) and the subsequent letter by A. J. Bruce (antea, p. 215) in which this subject is discussed. Bruce's theory, that a thrush (Turdus sp.) cannot afford to use its feet owing to...
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Reviews

01 September 1954
Comments Reviews Report on Somerset Birds, 1952: 39ft Report of the Ornithological Section of the Somersetshire Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. Obtainable from G. H. E. Young, Bank House, Martock, Somerset. 5s. Ornithological Notes, Bristol District, 1952. Edited by H. H. Davis...
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Reviews

01 September 1954
Comments Reviews Birds as Animals, i. A History of Birds. By James Fisher (Hutchinson's University Library, London, 1954). 8s. 6d. THIS book is based on the author's previously published Birds as- Animals (Heinemann, 1939), but is a completely revised and rewritten versio...
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