Notes

01 August 1972
Comments Notes Little Gull dip-feeding over upland fields On 22nd January 1972, at Barley-in-Pendle, Lancashire, I was fortunate to observe a firstwinter Little Gull Larus minutus following a flock of 24 Black-headed Gulls L. ridibundus over the lower slopes of Pendle H...
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Recent reports

01 August 1972
Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was remarkably cold, wet and windy--altogether a month of outstandingly bad weather. A shallow depression which drifted in at the end of April brought a pleasant May Day with a light south...
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News and comment

01 August 1972
Comments News and comment Environment Conference The much-vaunted United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm between 5 th and 16th June, and a great deal has already been written elsewhere about this jamboree. The conference began badly, for the U.S....
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Letters

01 August 1972
Comments Letters E y e colour of immature American Marsh H a w k Following the publication of my paper on a young American Marsh Hawk Circus cyaneus hudsonius near Cley, Norfolk, in the winter of 1957/58 {Brit. Birds, 64: 537-542), R. A. Richardson wrote to point out that...
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News and comment

01 April 1967
Comments News and comment Army Bird-watching Society.--Of the bird-watching societies run by the three armed services, that of the Army is perhaps the least well known. Its main aims are to promote and encourage bird-watching in the service and to co-operate with other ornithologi...
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Requests for information

01 April 1967
Comments Editorials Irish Peregrine Survey.--The Irish Society for the Protection of Birds is organising a survey of Peregrines Falco peregrinus in the Republic of Ireland in 1967. The main objects are to arrive at an accurate estimate of the number of nesting pairs and, if ...
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Letters

01 April 1967
Comments Letters Eruptions of Great Tits and other species Sirs,--I was interested in Dr. C. M. Perrins's paper on the effect of the seed crop of the beech Fagus sylvatka on the populations and movements of the Great Tit Partis major (Brit, Birds, 59: 419-432). To strengt...
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