Recent reports

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014
Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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Reviews

01 January 1983
Comments Reviews Hilbre; the Cheshire Island: its history and natural history. Edited by J. D, Craggs. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1982. 306 pages; 31 black-and-white plates; many line-drawings. £20.00. Hilbre, Middle Eye and Little Eye are three tiny ...
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Recent reports

01 January 1983
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated lecords All dates refer to October unless stated otherwise. The month was dominated by unsettled cyclonic weather with frequent fronts, but with generally mild conditions. During the first fortnigh...
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News and Comment

01 January 1983
Comments News and comment Regular subscribers will notice a change in authorship of this feature. Bob Spencer will soon be retiring from his post as Director of Services in the BTO and moving to Cumbria, and has decided to withdraw from co-authorship of 'News and comment' ...
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