World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...
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Reviews

01 September 1962 Comments Reviews Identification for Ringers: 2. T h e Genus Phylloscopus. By Kenneth Williamson. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, 1962. 86 pages; 1 colour and 4 monochrome plates. 7s. There are now about a thousand ringers in Britain. Many of these are trained and l...
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Notes

01 September 1962 Comments Notes Shelduck moulting in breeding area.--On 9th July 1961, in an area of extensive fresh grazing marshes in north Kent, I noticed an adult male Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) swimming along the edge of a large fleet. The knob on its bill had regressed, but it was...
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