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 November 1971
Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This covers August 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. Dull, changeable, showery weather during the first week led into an unusually wet and windy period from 9th to 14th w...
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News and comment

01 November 1971
Comments News and comment N e w R.S.P.B. reserve in Orkney The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has recently acquired its first reserve in Orkney: the Dale of Cottascarth on the main island. The Dale is already scheduled by the Nature Conservancy as a Site of Special Scie...
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Letters

01 November 1971
Comments Letters The late James Fisher's papers Several naturalists have asked me what has been the fate of the working notes and other papers used by my father, the late James Fisher. I hope that the following summary may be useful to naturalists who may wish to have acc...
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Reviews

01 November 1971
Comments Reviews Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World. By Leslie Brown and Dean Amadon. Hamlyn (for Country Life), Feltham, Middlesex, 1968. Two volumes in slip case: 945 pages including 165 bird plates (most in colour), one egg plate (in colour), 15 underwing plates, 9...
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