News and comment

01 November 1964
Comments News and comment Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve.--The ancient name Lindisfame has been officially revived by the Nature Conservancy in its declaration of the first part of a new reserve on the Northumberland coast. This includes the sand-dunes on Holy Island, togethe...
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Reviews

01 November 1964
Comments Reviews T h e World of Birds. By James Fisher and Roger Tory Peterson. 288 pages, including 90 with colour lithograph plates of nearly 700 species, more than 200 maps and many half-tone illustrations. Macdonald, London, 1964. 5 gns. Contrary to some expectations,...
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Notes

01 November 1964
Comments Notes Manx Shearwater as prey of Peregrine in central Scotland.--On 12th June 1964, near Cairngorm, Inverness-shire, I discovered the remains of an adult Manx Shearwater Procellaria puffinus in the eyrie of a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus. The body had be...
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Letters

01 November 1964
Comments Letters SIRS,--It would be interesting to know if the reports published in the popular Press earlier this year stating that large numbers of Rooks were making daily incursions to the Romney Marshes from the French coast, have ever been verified by a competent orn...
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Reviews

01 February 1958
Comments Reviews p a g e s ; coloured frontispiece by Roland Green; 12 photographic plates. (Witherby, London, 1957). 21s. INTENDED to provide detailed practical information for keepers, and would-be keepers, of waterfowl, this small book fulfils its aims admirably. A wor...
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Notes

01 February 1958
Comments Notes Leach's Petrels in Shetland.--On 6th August 1957, Leach's Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) were located over the boulderstrewn slopes of The Noup, Foula, Shetland. One was caught and at the same time two others could be heard calling- in flight. One was a...
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