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01 September 1972 Comments News and comment Foulness wildlife study When the Foulness area was chosen for the Third London Airport, the Government promised that funds would be available for a study of the airport's impact on the wildlife environment of the region. Long after some of us had given up...

Reviews

01 September 1972 Comments Reviews Gulls i n Britain. By Richard Vaughan. Witherby, London, 1972. 96 p a g e s ; 54 black-and-white plates. £1.75. This is a pleasant book. Gulls are highly photogenic, but few of us who walk through a gullery firing off a camera in all directions prod...

Notes

01 September 1972 Comments Notes Bewick's Swans feeding on waste potatoes and other agricultural crops Bewick's Swans Cygnus bewickii were present on the North Slob, Wexford, from 27th October 1971 to 10th March 1972. The maximum count was 131 on n t h February and the average from 17th ...

British bird-photographers 15: William S. Paton

01 September 1972 Comments Main paper Plates ))- 60 Occasionally a bird-photographer seems to have been born overnight: quite suddenly, his pictures appear before anyone has heard of him. William S. Paton is a case in point. His photographs have now been re produced in a great variety of publ...

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67

01 September 1972 Comments Main paper Part 8 Yellow-browed Warbler and Richard's Pipit This series now turns to two Asiatic species which are of regular occurrence in western Europe; they further have in common a recent upsurge of British and Irish records. The general introduction to these p...

The unprecedented westward migration of Curlew Sandpipers in autumn 1969

01 September 1972 Comments Main paper The Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea has long been regarded in Britain and Ireland as a passage migrant whose numbers fluctuate widely from year to year (Witherby et al. 1938-41, Nisbet and Vine 1956, Minton 1970). The passage in autumn 1969 was on a ...

Recent reports

01 September 1972 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during most of June was little better than that of the second half of May--a seemingly endless series of Atlantic depressions (nine major systems, in fact) bringing cold, cloudy co...

Letter

01 February 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o t h e letter from t h e Hon. G. Charteris (antea, p. 120), I can record three definite instances of Chaffinches having second broods. 1. I n 1938 a pair ringed b y me with coloured rings for identification nested in a holly just ...

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01 February 1945 Comments Reviews The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of the North Atlantic Gannet (Sola bassana). By James Fisher and H. G. Vevcrs. Part I.--A History of the G a n n e t s Colonies, and t h e Census in 1939. Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. xii, pp. 173-213, ...

Notes

01 February 1945 Comments Notes I HAVE recently been particularly interested in the behaviour of Marsh- and Coal-Tits, which together with larger numbers of Blue and Great Tits, have visited the garden here at Llanymynech during about the first three weeks of October, 1944. The garden,...

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British bird-photographers 15: William S. Paton

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67

The unprecedented westward migration of Curlew Sandpipers in autumn 1969

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Letter

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