Requests

01 December 1983 Comments Editorials Winter Atlas The BTO/IWC Winter Atlas is now in its third and final year of fieldwork. Counts of birds are wanted from all areas, but help is especially needed in parts of northwest Scotland, southwest England and Ireland. If you are able to help, plea...
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Announcements

01 December 1983 Comments Editorials Binding your BBs We should like to remind readers that special binders to hold a full year's issues can be purchased by post for £4.30 (overseas postage 35p extra) from Easibind, 42 Hoxton Square, London Nl 6NS. Standard book-binding of the year's iss...
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B.B. Tours

01 December 1983 Comments Editorials In this new venture (announced recently, Brit. Birds 76: 539-540), we offer exclusively to BB readers the chance to take part in some specially devised trips to good bird spots abroad. All the booking, accommodation and travelling arrangements will be ...
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Diary dates

01 December 1983 Comments Editorials This list covers events taking place during January to December 1984. We welcome submission of details for possible inclusion in the next list, covering July 1984 to June 1985.   6th-8th January BTO RINGING AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. H...
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Editorial

01 May 1981 Comments Editorials On 2nd April, the EEC Directive on the conservation of wild birds came into force, two years after its adoption. It covers ten countries, including much of western Europe, stretching as far east as Greece. It improves the conservation laws in all of th...
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Recent prosecutions

01 May 1981 Comments Editorials The Investigations Section of the RSPB's Species Protection Department has been increasingly successful in tracking down and prosecuting egg-collectors, bird-dealers, keepers and others who have stolen eggs or young from nests or killed protected speci...
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Request

01 May 1981 Comments Editorials Birds feeding in foam lines Birdwatchers who frequent lakes and reservoirs will be aware of the streaks of foam which form on the surface in the presence of wind. These streaks are due to a system of vortices in the water called 'Langmuir Circu...
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Announcements

01 May 1981 Comments Editorials Postal sale of original paintings from the Collins Gem Guide to 'Birds' This little guide to British and European birds was published by Collins last autumn at £1.50. The text is illustrated with 111 paintings by Martin Woodcock, and, by arran...
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