Recent reports

01 August 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not autnenticated records Dates in this report refer to May unless otherwise stated. The high-pressure region in mid Atlantic, which had caused the cold northerly weather of late April, declined by 5th, and ...
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News and comment

01 August 1981
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of the editors of British Birds Aulla Conference From 30th May to 1st June, the first Italian Ornithological Conference was held in Aulla, a small town at the base of the Nort...
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Requests

01 August 1981
Comments Editorials Readers' likes and dislikes Please help us to modify BB to suit your tastes by completing the readership questionnaire on the pull-out page in the centre of this issue. Wing-tagged Grey Herons A number of nestling Grey Herons Ardea cinerea in F...
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Announcements

01 August 1981
Comments Editorials Book offers It helps BB's finances if you order these books from us: Birdwatching in the Seventies by Ian Wallace (Macmillan) £7.95 post free. A Notebook of Birds--1907-1980 by Jim Flegg (Macmillan) £6.95 post free. Fr...
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Notes

01 August 1981
Comments Notes Predation on Manx Shearwaters by grey seals On most evenings during early August 1976, large flocks of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus fed on the tide race between South Bishop Lighthouse and Ramsey Island, Dyfed. Regular gathering...
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Recent reports

01 September 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals with June 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. It begins with two remarkable reports of White-billed Divers Gavia adamsii; one in breeding plumage on Uppe...
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News and comment

01 September 1971
Comments News and comment Oceanic dustbin ? The ill-starred July voyage of the Stella Maris gave wide publicity to a subject that has worried conservationists for some time, namely the dumping of industrial effluents at sea. The Stella Maris, a Dutch vessel, carried 600 tons of ch...
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Notes

01 September 1971
Comments Notes Female Golden Orioles in male plumage In the first part of his current series on 'Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67' (Brit. Birds, 62: 169-189) D r J. T. R. Sharrock was right to point out that first-year male Golden Orioles Oriolus or...
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