01 October 1977CommentsNews and comment
These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records
This report covers July and the first part of August; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to July. The first week of this period was very warm and the consequent increase...
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01 October 1977CommentsNews and comment
Conference on European bird protection co-operation
The Deutsche Bund für Vogelschutz has invited representatives of the major European bird protection organisations to discuss this autumn at Mainz their common position towards European Econom...
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01 October 1977CommentsEditorials
Descriptions of hybrid wildfowl
Hybrid wildfowl are most commonly to be seen in or near collections. The ordinary birdwatcher often regards them as aesthetically and conservationally undesirable, besides being uninteresting. It is, however, the...
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01 October 1977CommentsLetters
Field guides and the appreciation of birds
It is always good to find credit given where it is due. Hence I was glad to see Bruce Campbell's suggestion (Brit. Birds 70: 172) that W. B. Alexander's Birds of the Ocean (ig28) was probably the first...
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01 October 1977CommentsNotes
Displays of Moorhen
In bis paper on the breeding behaviour and biology of the Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (Brit. Birds 67: 104-115, 137-158), N. A. Wood described displays performed on water when intruders were near a nest containing eggs and y...
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01 October 1977CommentsMain paper
Until the differences between Long-eared Asio otus and Short-eared Owls A. flammeus in the field were analysed by A. H. Davis and Robin Prytherch [Brit. Birds 69: 281-287, plate 49), flight identification of these species was seldom attempted, or a day...
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01 October 1977CommentsMain paper
My first encounter with Jeffery Boswall was at a meeting of the Junior Bird Recorders' Club in London's Caxton Hall in early September 1948, and resulted in my taking him to the bomb-devastated Cripplegate-Moorgate area to see his first Black Redstarts...
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01 October 1977CommentsMain paper
This is the nineteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. Details of the composition of the committee and other matters relating to its work during the year have already been published (Brit. Birds 70: 306- 308). After the phenomenal procession o...
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01 June 1907CommentsEditorials
EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.ASSISTED BY W. P. PYCRAFT, A.L.S, M.B.O.U. EDITORIAL.BEFORE setting forth our plans, our hopes, and our ambitions for BRITISH BIRDS, we must first expr...
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